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

On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 at 18:37, Anna Vyalkova <[email protected]> wrote:
> As it has been pointed out, there's barely any need for a news item. It
> looks like an advertisement that most users won't find useful.

The news item is essentially here in case something goes wrong or
surprises users. But I feel it would be weird for any app-alternative
news item to not mention what the actual alternative is and how to
switch to it, even if I expect very few users will.

This news item aims to be purely technical, it carefully avoids
judging or recommending a particular implementation. I'm not sure how
I could make it more neutral ?

> To me, "rewriting coreutils in Rust" looks like a move against copyleft.

I don't want to start a heated discussion here so I hope this'll be my
only reply on the subject, but there is a lot more to uutils than its
license. FWIW, I have never seen any user or contributor mentioning
the license as an argument for uutils.

> > ```bash
>
> Markdown syntax is not supported for gentoo news items. Please keep it
> formatted in plain text.

I was given a different advice in
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-news/pull/5#discussion_r2872732707

Can somebody weigh in on this ? Even if the file is just `cat`ed to
the terminal, the markdown syntax might help the human reader ?