LavX News reports that OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt and senior ports developers rejected a proposed sysutils/uutils port that packaged the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils as g-prefixed drop-in commands, with de Raadt saying the permissive MIT-licensed tools amount to a second set of ‘subtly different’ utilities that no one wants in their pipelines and that the proposal ‘smells like agenda.’ Developer Stuart Henderson called the multicall-binary packaging unusable for ports, and reviewers also cited Rust’s toolchain, dependency and bootstrap burden and the split between Linux distributions that treat utilities as interchangeable components and OpenBSD’s curated base system. The port remains in the proposal stage.
OpenBSD developers reject uutils coreutils port over licensing and compatibility
LavX News reports that OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt and senior ports developers rejected a proposed sysutils/uutils port that packaged the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils as g-prefixed drop-in commands, with de Raadt saying the permissive MIT-licensed tools amount to a second set of 'subtly different' utilities that no one wants in their pipelines and that the proposal 'smells like agenda.' Developer Stuart Henderson called the multicall-binary packaging unusable for ports, and reviewers also cited Rust's toolchain, dependency and bootstrap burden and the split between Linux distributions that treat utilities as interchangeable components and OpenBSD's curated base system. The port remains in the proposal stage.
Source: Lavx