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

>>>>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2026, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:

[Why have you dropped gentoo-dev from CC?]

>> 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.

> The main argument against virtual+blocker is that we want to keep both
> packages co-installable.

Entirely possible with a virtual. Have uu-coreutils install the programs
with prefixed names, and only install the generic names with some USE
flag. That same flag would also be a USE-conditional for the blocker
against coreutils.

Ulrich

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