bug#22696: ls output changes considered unacceptable

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/16/2016 02:29 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Regarding the recent change of default-quoting style,
> what do you think about the attached patch,
> enabling to set the default style during './configure' ? 

We should endeavor to avoid behavior forks like that. Besides, such a 
change would violate the GNU Coding Standards, which say, "No '--enable' 
option should ever substitute one useful behavior for another useful 
behavior.  The only proper use for '--enable' is for questions of 
whether to build part of the program
or exclude it."