RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 2 days agoUbuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutilswww.altusintel.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoHmm… Time to go back to Debian. Too bad, I liked Mint.
minus-squareusername@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoCan’t Mint just choose not to incorporate them? They did that with snaps
minus-squareExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoSnap was just one side thing. Coreutils is, well, core. Diverging on that is like diverging on systemd: if Mint does that, they may as well split from Ubuntu completely, as the dependency hell with Ubuntu packages will be completely unmanageable.
Hmm… Time to go back to Debian. Too bad, I liked Mint.
Can’t Mint just choose not to incorporate them? They did that with snaps
Snap was just one side thing. Coreutils is, well, core. Diverging on that is like diverging on systemd: if Mint does that, they may as well split from Ubuntu completely, as the dependency hell with Ubuntu packages will be completely unmanageable.
Ah that makes sense, thank you