Post #2806637
2026-05-02 22:51 UTC
@mjw@mastodon.nl
Oh, here's an idea:
do you think coreutils would accept an upstream patch that added a command-line option and/or environment variable that changed the output?
That would mess with people's minds less, and once it rolled out upstream, it'd eventually be everywhere for me to use it!
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@collinfunk@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 23:41
@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @mjw@mastodon.nl There was a relatively long bug report discussing different ways to make this less confusing a few years ago: https://bugs.gnu.org/52115 I think I agree with Bernhard for the most part. Especially that the synopsis of 'ln' is a bit of a mess that we should avoid complicating further.