On 02/21/2016 08:18 AM, John Trengrove wrote: > Today I was a little bewildered at what happened to my terminal. > > After some research I found that a recent change in coreutils modified the > default ls output to be more verbose but "safer". > > I'm happy that options like this output format exist and that core > utilities like ls are getting maintained. However, I dislike this new > default and regret the fact I will have to deal with it in every linux > machine I own. > > As one of the few users using a rolling distro and first in line to > upgrade, I predict this mailing list will receive complaints about this > feature for the next two years. I hope the maintainers have considered if > such a disruptive change is worthwhile.
There already have been discussions on this. Just out of curiosity - what rolling distro do you use? On mine - openSUSE:Tumbleweed - the 'aaa_base-extras' package defines a shell alias which uses "-N --color=tty -T 0" per default for a very long time - so we don't profit from the safer output right now. I'll have to contact the guys maintaining that downstream package for the reasoning behind. Have a nice day, Berny
