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

Marc Schiffbauer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Ionen Wolkens schrieb am 23.03.26 um 00:22 Uhr:
> If e.g. you install uutils-coreutils with USE=native-symlinks or
> something, it would *overwrite* bin/cp and tell portage to unmerge
> sys-apps/coreutils in the process rather than let it coexist.

I also do like the virtual approach more than app-alternatives. Why 
would someone want having installed both at the same time given that 
uutils are meant to be a drop-in replacement?

I can image shell scripts in the wild which may change their behavior 
unintentionally if some core commands are suddenly being replaced by a 
symlink instead.

-Marc

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