Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Message-ID: <200005301710.KAA97389@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/18900; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/18900: patch to add colorizing feature to /bin/ls Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:00:58 +0200 On Tue, 30-May-2000 at 08:32:13 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > [snippage] > > Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > The misc/colorls port adds the colorizing feature to ls and > > installs the resulting executable as colorls. > > > > It would be nice to have this feature in /bin/ls so other changes > > to /bin/ls don't have to be ported to the distfile on which > > the misc/colorls port relies. > > > The resulting /bin/ls is 195720 bytes in size. It has been > > 194568 bytes before so the difference is only 1152 bytes > > which should be acceptable even for a file in /bin :-). > > For some absurd reason, including this in the base system has, in the > past been some sort of religious war. It's high time for the aburdity to Oops, it didn't know that. I follow FreeBSD for 4 years now and never saw discussion about this :-) > end. The facts about this are simple: > > Many people want it. > If YOU don't want it, YOU don't have to use it. > We have a good, working version. > Looking at the current state of things, it adds almost nothing to the > 3.5 megs of binaries in /bin. So, what does us keep from committing it :-) ? > > This patch applies to -Current, but needs a small adjustment to account > for the -n option. Ahh, I see. There are two small rejections in ls.1 and ls.c which are easily fixable. -Andre > > Doug > -- > "Live free or die" > - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire > > Do YOU Yahoo!? -- Micro$oft: Which virus will you get today? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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