From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 31 13:26:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [194.138.37.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A573B37B612 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 13:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4VKJrB05346; Wed, 31 May 2000 22:19:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e4VKJrd12282; Wed, 31 May 2000 22:19:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e4VKJqs91583; Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:19:52 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Thomas David Rivers 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> References: <20000531095153.A80830@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <200005311200.IAA29719@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200005311200.IAA29719@lakes.dignus.com>; from rivers@dignus.com on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:00:30AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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