bug#22696: ls output changes considered unacceptable

[Ruediger Meier]

On Tuesday 16 February 2016, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Regarding the recent change of default-quoting style,
> what do you think about the attached patch,
> enabling to set the default style during './configure' ?
>
> advanced users who prefer the previous behavior (but don't want to
> use a new alias or add QUOTING_STYLE envvar) can build their own
> version with the old style quoting.
>
> (this patch is a proof-of-concept, not well tested or
> syntax-checked).
>
> Comments welcomed,
>    assaf

As already said in practice it is already configurable by different kind 
of distro-specific techniques or shell aliases. For example openSUSE 
has envvar LS_OPTIONS. Maybe we could support such LS_OPTIONS variable 
officially.

For example I'm always using "--time-style=long-iso" and I guess many 
people would like to use different flavours.

cu,
Rudi