{
  "id": 10893688,
  "title": "OpenBSD's ports tree keeps GPL coreutils and rejects uutils (Rust rewrite)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/openbsds-ports-tree-keeps-gpl-coreutils-and-rejects-uutils-rust",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-30T07:47:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://www.mail-archive.com/ports%40openbsd.org/msg143892.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A contributor proposed a new OpenBSD port for uutils, the Rust reimplementations of GNU coreutils. The proposal met firm resistance: Stuart Henderson called it unusable, explaining that GNU coreutils exists mainly to stabilize GNU-sensitive build environments. Theo de Raadt went further arguing that nobody wants subtly differently-behaving utilities in their pipelines and that ports developers…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}