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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
 > 
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