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

On 2026-03-20 18:29:18, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> GNU defaults are not currently expected to ever change. The proposal is
> valid insomuch as Gentoo supports choice, including the choice to use
> terrible, racy, buggy software like uutils. That is opt-in.

Is there any reason to think that these are secure? If I may presume
to be typical, I am not willing to spend four hours compiling a 50
megabyte "ls" to see if it has the same security issues that GNU
coreutils already fixed.

(If anyone wants to check if the recursive chown/chgrp is depth-first,
it sure doesn't look like it.)