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

On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 at 14:09, Ionen Wolkens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now that you mention it, it does use up quite a bit of g* namespace
> which afaik also isn't quite widespread/expected unlike e.g. gtar.
> If really had to do this, it may(?) make more sense to do like ninja
> did and do cp-reference and the like.

I just went with `g*` as suggested in the original bug report, but we
could easily use
`g-*` or `gnu*` or `gnu-*` to be a bit more unique. Most users will
only ever use the symlink, so the prefixed name doesn't need to be
short and sweet. FWIW, the uutils prefix is `uu-*`, so I like `g-*` as
it uses the same template.