Today I was a little bewildered at what happened to my terminal. After some research I found that a recent change in coreutils modified the default ls output to be more verbose but "safer".
I'm happy that options like this output format exist and that core utilities like ls are getting maintained. However, I dislike this new default and regret the fact I will have to deal with it in every linux machine I own. As one of the few users using a rolling distro and first in line to upgrade, I predict this mailing list will receive complaints about this feature for the next two years. I hope the maintainers have considered if such a disruptive change is worthwhile. John Trengrove
