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rejected feature requests
A long-running compendium documents feature requests that GNU coreutils maintainers declined over the years for commands like cat, chmod, cp, cut, date, dd, df, du, ls, mv, rm, sort, stat, and many others, along with the maintainers' rationale for each rejection. Common reasons include: existing tools (awk, sed, find, tr, rsync, numfmt) already cover the use case, the feature is too specialized or platform-dependent, it would add complexity without broad benefit, or it conflicts with POSIX or general design philosophy. The piece also covers rejected proposals for entirely new commands and new environment variables, illustrating the project's conservative approach to scope and backward compatibility.
Source: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html. 8 Sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.
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