On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 08:39:48PM +0530, Dan Cross wrote: > If you are going to make a change, I suggest adding a '-I' and making > the default -A for *all* users. Perhaps if people saw how much the > applications they install are littering their directory namespaces, > pressure would build to come up with a more sensible convention to > handle configuration. Having an arbitrary class of files that are not > displayed by default is non-intuitive and just weird. > The standard says, "Filenames beginning with a <period> ( '.' ) and any associated information shall not be written out unless explicitly referenced, the -A or -a option is supplied, or an implementation-defined condition causes them to be written." We're not going to violate this by turning on -A for everyone.
As far as making root act the same way as everyone else, I'm fine with that. If we do that, I recommend removing the -I option that was just added. --Peter
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