Re: Re: news item: Introduction of app-alternatives/coreutils

On 3/21/26 6:36 PM, Ionen Wolkens wrote:
> Admit I'm not fond of the visibility bit either, I'd rather that this
> goes under the radar (like virtual/zlib did) so a potentially large
> amount users don't try switching on a whim after reading news (even if
> we mask USE=uutils).
>
> I don't really care about the rust or licensing bits, it's more about
> potential compatibility issues that may still need to be ironed out.
> Even moreso when (for Gentoo) build systems are involved.
>
> ... albeit a transition without a news warning does also worry me,
> app-alternatives switches haven't always been the smoothest given
> users also do all sort of things that may make it go badly, and then
> this is quite a core package. So not quite sure what I think of this.


As a user, I think it should be made real clear this is a optional 
switch and not something that needs to be done for future systems. One 
could read that and think it is a official switch to a new package and 
the old one is no longer the default.  After all, that is one big thing 
news items are used for.

Just a user's thoughts.

Dale

:-)  :-)