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> uutils aims to be a drop-in replacement for the GNU utils. Differences with GNU are treated as bugs. > some options might be missing or different behavior mi
by yawaramin 2y ago
> uutils aims to be a drop-in replacement for the GNU utils. Differences with GNU are treated as bugs.
> some options might be missing or different behavior might be experienced.
Both of these statements cannot be true at the same time.
- steveklabnik 2y agoThey trivially can: "aims to be" means "in the future they will be this way," not "they are presently this way." That's what "differences are bugs" means, that you may currently experience incorrect behavior, but that it is intended to be fixed in the future.
- johnisgood 2y agoAccording to GitHub issues and the project's current status, that future is going to be a long time from now, so why would anyone NOW replace GNU coreutils with this project? It makes no sense. I hope they will at least give users the option to choose, but then again, it does not affect me, I do not use Ubuntu, nor will I ever touch it.