bug#41250: 28.0.50; Dired displays unconditionally ls-switches on modeline

[Stefan Kangas]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Another question: can I assume, at this time of civilisation
> development, that everybody has GNU ls, since binutils, or coreutils, or
> what is the name, is probably default on most *nix distros, as well as
> on msys2 which is needed to build on Windows. No idea how Mac people are
> doing in that regard though?

MacOS has BSD userland, as does *BSD.

You can install it and use GNU coreutils optionally, but I would expect
only a minority of users to do that.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas