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

Ulrich Müller <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:01:47 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
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>>>>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2026, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:

> 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.

Neither of these are very distinctive names, given that both coreutils
and uutils-coreutils describe themselves as "GNU coreutils". Using a
suffix as suggested by Ionen may be better. (But still, I'd much prefer
if we wouldn't rename at all.)

Ulrich

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