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

On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 at 08:21, Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is what I'm torn on and I don't yet know. I'd prefer to not have to
> > do one indeed given I think it will encourage people or give some
> > legitimacy to it being a "reasonable option".

While I firmly believe that most users should stick to GNU, I wouldn't
have done all this work (and we wouldn't be constructively discussing
it) if uutils wasn't a reasonable option. There are pros and cons
about uutils but it works, I expect hardly any compat issue at this
stage, and some users want to at least try it.

> That said, can we reduce the newsitem to people who have
> sys-apps/uutils-coreutils installed?  I suppose that's the set of people
> who would really be interested in this virtual.

I don't think this would be wise: the main purpose of this news item
is prevention and troubleshooting, whether the user cares about uutils
or not.