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

Marc Schiffbauer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Alexey Sokolov schrieb am 24.03.26 um 19:24 Uhr:
> 20.03.2026 19:35, moltonel 3x Combo пишет:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> A random alternative idea:
> 
> 1. don't touch sys-apps/coreutils at all (for now)
> 
> 2. make sys-apps/uutils-coreutils install the files to e.g.
> /usr/libexec/uutils
> 
> 3. make sys-apps/uutils-coreutils[a use flag] or maybe a separate
> package(?) install a file like /etc/env.d/uutils which would add
> /usr/libexec/uutils to PATH before /usr/bin
> 
> This makes them coinstallable, and using the changed environment you
> can call the utils by their usual name

I like that idea!


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