Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2019-04-01, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > This syncs the color code in sysutils/colorls with FreeBSD's.  In
> > particular, it adds a long option --color=WHEN for compatibility
> > with GNU coreutils.
> 
> As Theo privately pointed out, this is getting ridiculously bloated.
> Two environment variables, a short option, and a long option which can
> take a number of arguments all interact to finally give colored
> output--or not.
> 
> Maybe we should draw a line and not follow these additions?
> 
> What do the people who use colorls think?

wait, wait -- I didn't express an opinion!


I don't use this.  I just pointed out my amusement that the emailed
colorls diff was half the size of monochromatic ls :-)

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