Re: Not sure how to best reply re: dir_colors situation

[Kamil Dudka]

On Saturday 06 of June 2009 16:30:05 Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > I think we should improve documentation a bit. It is not only about hard
> > links. Some people may also want to disable file capabilities
> > highlighting, etc. Pádraig, what do you think?
>
> Well as discussed previously I'm not fond of this feature at all:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/threads.html#00287
> TBH, the number of hardlinks has it's own column that one can quickly scan.
> The only argument I've seen for changing the color is "it would help".
> So I'd be happy to turn off this completely, or at least not enable it by
> default.

If this is what users want, then fine by me. Let's make the final decision
if "turn off completely", or "not enable by default". I'll prepare the patch 
for review.

Kamil