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   Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 09:07:31 JST Brodie Robertson

   I wonder if we're actually moving into a world where GNU/Linux is just a flat out wrong statement, Ubuntu is adopting uutils, I wouldn't be surprised if others decide to experiment with it

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 09:45:58 JST Brodie Robertson

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     Here's a thought, if distros start widely adopting uutils or some other coreutils rewrite I wonder if we'll see the same contrarian complaints that pulseaudio and systemd dealt with and Wayland is dealing with now

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     malba (malba@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 10:18:50 JST malba

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     @BrodieOnLinux uutils is trying to become a drop-in replacement for coreutils, so, if distros adopt it long enough from now, like a decade maybe, there might not be much difference in compatibility between them.

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 12:06:56 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • Fedora Project (F42 is OUT)
     • Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

     @Conan_Kudo @fedora My understanding is there's some SELinux related options not implemented yet

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     Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (conan_kudo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 12:06:57 JST Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

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     • Fedora Project (F42 is OUT)

     @BrodieOnLinux There have been some experiments for a while now. @fedora also has `uutils-coreutils` to allow people to try it as an alternative. I don't see the wiring for making the package fully swappable yet as an equivalent provider of coreutils alongside `coreutils` and `coreutils-single`, though. I'm not sure if anyone has thought of it yet.