Subject: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly

From: "L. A. Walsh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:27:22 -0800

Eric Blake wrote:
> Knowing the pitfalls makes it easier to justify why an output that is
> unambiguous was chosen as the new default over the previous ambiguous
> output; any further changes to the default are now a matter of
> fine-tuning about how much (or how little) decoration we can get away
> with, while still avoiding a regression to the situation of ambiguous
> output.
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	That's bull!  You don't just randomly change 
output in programs and break compatibility.  If the user
wanted unambiguous, there are already options.