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

On 2026-03-22, Ulrich Müller wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2026, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:
> 
>> A new app-alternatives/coreutils ebuild is available, giving the
>> choice between sys-apps/coreutils and sys-apps/uutils-coreutils as the
>> main coreutils (mkdir, ls, etc) implementation. The default will
>> remain the gnu implementation for the foreseeable future.
> 
> Maybe these are heretic questions, but:
> 
> 1. What problem does this solve?
> 
> 2. Why do we need app-alternatives here, instead of a simple virtual
>    (plus a blocker)? I find renaming (e.g. gls, gcp) and symlinking
>    of all standard tools incredibly ugly.

Not only ugly, but also potentially prone to file collisions. Although 
currently (according to app-portage/pfl), only sys-fs/gdu::guru would 
conflict with prefixed coreutils.