Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory

[Dustin Sallings]

On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 20:53 US/Pacific, Robert Collins wrote:

> Bull.
>
> hiding "." files is a convention of your file dir lister.
>
> Your argument to change {arch} to be 'hidden' applies equally to your 
> ls
> command - why not just teach it to hide '{arch}'. No more SOL.

	This is wrong.  It's directory listing, command completion, globbing 
(I use one shell for scripting, another for interactive use) and 
probably more stuff I'm not thinking of (any languages that support 
their own globbing would need to be revised, for example).  Some GUI 
tools (such as my Mac's finder) that has a concept of hidden 
directories can be told to hide a specific directory, but some cannot.

	I don't think arguing to change everything around the {arch} directory 
provides a good reason for keeping it.

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