2026-09-15 20:30 UTC
This is dumb, I have to use osX for work and having coreutils be similar but not quite the same is a PITA, why would you inflict this on yourself to close a class of bugs that aren’t really a huge concern for coreutils.
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@trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-15 20:54
The problem with macOS is that they use BSD utils, which are lacking functionality from GNU utils. If anything, utils being pushover-licensed means that Apple would be more likely to replace their broken coreutils with uutils and you’d get more parity with the coreutils installed on most Linux systems. And I say that as someone that despises pushover licenses, but this creates the probably that macOS utils won’t suck someday.