On 19 February 2016 at 05:11, dev1fanboy <devuanfanboy@???> wrote:

> Little late to this thread, that sounds like annoying default behaviour
> and more of this same mentality that breaking backwards compatibility is
> OK, it's really not at all. Really it should be the other way, set -N to
> use the new wrapping. But hey why not right, systemd does this so we should
> too.</sarcasm>
>
> Cheers,
>
> chillfan
>
>

Funnily, the thread now has a systemd side debate as well :) Just slightly.

See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg00026.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg00034.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg00037.html


Also those messages contains good arguments against the ls change.

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aldemir