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Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux
2024-06-19 uutils coreutils is a core utilities project (providing commands like ls/ cp/etc) written in Rust and targetting compability with the GNU core utilities. They have made impressive progress on their goal of passing all the tests in the GNU test suite, so I wondered what it would look like to run them as the primary coreutils on a full Linux system.
The answer to this is replacing all depencies on GNU coreutils with the virtual package, but that seems like a lot of work just to figure out if this is at all feasible. I chose to increment the major version by one from the newest release of sys-apps/coreutils just to be sure that my local copy of the package would be considered an upgrade from the existing system install. The error was happening when the cowsay Makefile tried to run install, and it was as-if the underlying coreutils "multicall binary" didn't recognize it.
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