Replace coreutils in NixOS with (RIIR)uutils

[ehmry]

I am curious to know what the NixOS community thinks about the rust rewrite of the GNU core-utils and implementing it on nixos by default. Recently ubuntu started experimenting with it, so I became a bit interested to know what the NixOS community’s opinion about this whole thing is and is there any plan of implementing these rust rewrites in nixos replacing gnu core-utils as well or continue with the gnu core-utils as default going forward.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-do-you-think-about-replacing-gnu-core-utils-with-uutils-by-default-in-nixos/

[link2xt]

General tracking issue for coreutils: https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/156