Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:19:52 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, brian@Awfulhak.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, Doug@gorean.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Message-ID: <20000531221952.A99315@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <200005311200.IAA29719@lakes.dignus.com>; from rivers@dignus.com on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:00:30AM -0400 References: <20000531095153.A80830@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <200005311200.IAA29719@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Wed, 31-May-2000 at 08:00:30 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > And even with the thing getting committed, he still would not get > > colors unless he ran 'ls -G' on FreeBSD. I never would like to act > > 'ls' as 'ls -G' as default (as Linux obviously does). > > > > Just as a question then... > > If the user who wanted colorized ls has to change to get it; > why bother with putting this in the FreeBSD ls? > > I mean, there is a colorized ls port - right? So, you could > simply install that one. > > Then, since the user has to change anyway - have him change > to use the installed port... I was using this one until a few days ago. However, the ports distfile is based on an older version of ls (e.g. someone already mentionend that the ports version treats symlinks differently than /bin/ls). So I wanted to see how difficult it would be to add the color feature to /bin/ls. As a result, there would be only one ls that needs to be maintained. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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