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by saghm 1692 days ago
Not GP, but I'd imagine one use case would be for writing scripts to be used on other machines where the tools might not be installed, e.g. writing scripts on a mac to be run on Linux servers. If for example you want to script something for CI to be run on a Linux server, I can imagine having the GNU utilities in the default path on a Mac would be useful, since getting the Rust tools installed on the CI server is probably not worth the effort.