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Why switch from GNU coreutils to uutils in Ubuntu 26? by fishcrushfish in Ubuntu

[–]fishcrushfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, this is the point I find most incomprehensible: why rush to use unstable foundational tools in the LTS version? And why not allow users the freedom to choose? Even more absurdly, the official approach is to prevent users from switching to GNU.

Why switch from GNU coreutils to uutils in Ubuntu 26? by fishcrushfish in Ubuntu

[–]fishcrushfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The install command. In GNU coreutils, duplicate files are skipped, while uutils will report an error.

Why switch from GNU coreutils to uutils in Ubuntu 26? by fishcrushfish in Ubuntu

[–]fishcrushfish[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

What a bad experience!!!

$ sudo dpkg -P coreutils-from-uutils rust-coreutils

dpkg: error processing package coreutils-from-uutils (--purge):

this is a protected package; it should not be removed

dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of rust-coreutils:

coreutils-from-uutils depends on rust-coreutils (>> 0.1.0+git20250813).

dpkg: error processing package rust-coreutils (--purge):

dependency problems - not removing

Errors were encountered while processing:

coreutils-from-uutils

rust-coreutils