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

▲ theandrewbailey an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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...

▲ kibwen an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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tambre an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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

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KnuthIsGod an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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