From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 5 1:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E051037B71A; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 01:16:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12ys3t-00063R-0W; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:16:42 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA36118; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:16:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 09:20:06 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Josef Karthauser Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Smith , "Andrey A. Chernov" , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h print.c In-Reply-To: <20000604231722.H620@pavilion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:59:24PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > That's 100K difference and certainly a significant increase, though > > > one could also perhaps argue that at 189K, ls(1) is no longer the > > > thin, svelte utility we remember from her youth and another chocolate > > > eclair or two isn't going to make that big a difference at this point. > > > > I think having a /bin/ls and a /usr/bin/ls would be the way to go then. > > > > /bin/ls can be the "thin, svelte utility" > > /usr/bin/ls can have all the eclairs it wants. > > If we're going to do that we may as well keep colour support as a > separate port. There's no point having two ls's in the tree IMHO. Or we could develop a "Plug In" model for ls... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message