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Comment by zx8080

14 days ago

Agree with the point. Asking sincerely, how to filter out installing any rust-rewrite packages on my machines? Does anyone know the way?

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kibwen  14 days ago

If you don't want Canonical's packages, you should probably just be using Debian rather than Ubuntu. It's not 2008 anymore, stock Debian is quite user-friendly.

  • tambre  14 days ago

    Worth noting is that in Debian experimental coreutils defaults to coreutils-from-uutils [0]. This came as a big surprise and as far as I can tell there's been no discussion. A Canonical developer seems to have unilaterally overwritten the coreutils package without discussing with the maintainer. All the package renames that are in Ubuntu aren't in Debian so you can't switch to GNU utils either without deep trickery in a separate recovery environment.

    I'm used to running experimental software but I wasn't ready for my computer to not boot one day because of uutils. The `-Z` flag for `cp` wasn't implemented in the 9 month old version shipped in Debian at that time so initramfs creation failed...

    [0] https://packages.debian.org/experimental/coreutils

  • cdmckay  14 days ago

    Or Fedora.

    I feel like Fedora has the same pragmatic approach (allows non-free drivers, packages, etc.) and is just as easy to use.

  • KnuthIsGod  14 days ago

    Or use a sane distribution like Arch or Gentoo instead of Ubuntu based systems.

    • dapperdrake  14 days ago

      Alpine Linux has a better shot at acceptable compile times.

      Some FOSS software seems to maximize kernel IO last time I had a Gentoo.

theandrewbailey  14 days ago

I'm unaware of any Rust rewrites outside of coreutils, so:

    sudo apt install coreutils-from-gnu

https://computingforgeeks.com/ubuntu-2604-rust-coreutils-gui...

  • pxc  14 days ago

    There aren't true 1:1 clones, but there's ripgrep (inspired by GNU grep) and fd (inspired by GNU find). Those two I like, though. I think they're thoughtfully designed and in ripgrep's case at least (I just haven't read posts/comments by fd's author), it was developed with some close study of other grep implementations. I still use GNU grep and GNU find as well, but rg and fd are often nice for me.