Bug 601140

Summary:	sys-apps/coreutils-8.25 ls changes default output quoting behavior
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tom Gillespie <tgbugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch to rever default ls quoting behavior

Description Tom Gillespie 2016-11-28 22:13:53 UTC

Created attachment 454642 [details, diff]
patch to rever default ls quoting behavior

It seems that discussion from back in Feb about changes to the behavior of ls with regard to printing quoted output has not been resolved upstream.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-02/msg00019.html
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/258679/why-is-ls-suddenly-wrapping-items-with-spaces-in-single-quotes

Until upstream figures out what is going on, can we implement a compile solution for reverting to the normal old default behavior?

I don't have a good solution for this other than the one proposed in this mailing list thread https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/d5404d231209636850ffb9251c60b595 (the epatch_user is attached). Would it be possible to add a use flag so that we can set default ls output quoting behavior at compile time (using the ls -N alias is not a solution)?

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-11-28 22:21:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 586246 ***