Nixpkgs has a PR for replacing the build environment of packages with uutils-coreutils[0]. From testing by building various packages over a dozen bugs were rep

Nixpkgs has a PR for replacing the build environment of packages with uutils-coreutils[0]. From testing by building various packages over a dozen bugs were reported upstream, but a lot of software does build successfully with uutils[1][2], after upstream fixes, including chromium, vlc, nix, rustc, emacs, vim, uutils itself etc. It's an interesting experiment to replace such a fundamental dependency with a rewrite. A lot of the build failures are due to uutils not implementing GNU extensions, some of which can get pretty involved. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274 [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274#issuecomment-850950790 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274#issuecomment-85... [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274#issuecomment-862131908 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116274#issuecomment-86...