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

On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 3:50 AM Ulrich Müller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

I honestly prefer this idea as well.

As someone who will be sticking with GNU coreutils for the foreseeable
future, this is my current preference list, from best to worst:

1. Do nothing (maintain status quo)
2. virtual/coreutils with sys-apps/coreutils and
sys-apps/uutils-coreutils blocking each other
3. app-alternatives/coreutils
4. eselect module to manage symlinks in /usr/bin