Eric Blake <[email protected]> writes: > On 10/21/2010 03:22 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> >> >> Jim Meyering<[email protected]> writes: >> >>> And besides, with coreutils-8.6 already released, reverting the >>> change is no longer an option. >> >> Why? I'm pretty sure more breakage will pop up over time. > > How would you propose 'fixing' it?
Add a flag character, eg. %.X. > And why give the user less information than what is available? Because it breaks things. This is bad in general, especially if it can easily be avoided. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
