no color ls by default, but color grep?

[dopey]

Okay,
Can someone explain to me this inconsistency:
In the stable /etc/skel/.bashrc:

#GNU#@alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --colour=auto'

By default, ls is not colorized, but grep is. What's the logic behind this? If one were colorized, shouldn't the other also be?
It seems odd that pretty much ever since SLS and Slackware days, Linux distributions started configuring colorized ls by default (only in the last few years have distros started shying away from colorized ls by default) and gentoo USED to have colorized ls, but now, it's no longer colorized by default, but grep is? WTF?

And yes, I know how easy it is to customize the .bashrc file for my own tastes. I just find this default rather odd.

[metalfan]

ls colors are activated by default (x86).....ive tried to find the location in /etc but im not really sure where.

greets
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[dopey]

ls used to be aliased to ls --color=auto by default in /etc/skel/.bashrc. /etc/skel is used to build the user's home directory during user creation. If your user was created before .bashrc was changed to comment out the alias line, that's why you have color ls by default. However, it definitely is no longer the default in /etc/skel/.bashrc and it's not in any other /etc files that I can find.

[lazarusrat]

I'm not at home, so I can't check to see if this is default. The gentoo machine I've got access to right now has it in /etc/bash/bashrc (though there are several other aliases there that I know are not default).
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[dopey]

from /etc/bash/bashrc:

#GNU#@alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --colour=auto'

I checked bash/files directory in portage too and it syncs up with that one.

That line is commented out.

[Dr. Strangelove]