Most coreutils command are provided in /usr/bin as symlinks to
/usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils.

/usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils contains symlinks to /usr/bin/coreutils
(provided by rust-coreutils).

"coreutils --list" lists the supported commands.

The following commands are listed by `coreutils --list` but do not
appear as hard links in usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils :

b3sum
hostname
kill
more
uptime

Conversely, /usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils/relpath exists as a hardlink to
/usr/bin/coreutils, but neither gnu-coreutils nor rust-coreutils
supports a "relpath" command. (There's a "relpath" command in the fp-
tuils, Free Pascal utilities, package).

Suggestion: The contents of the /usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils directory
should exactly match the set of commands supported by rust-coreutils, as
listed by `coreutils --list`. That would, among other things, correct
this problem by creating the target of the /usr/bin/b3sum symlink.

Of course not all commands from /usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils need to be
provided as symlinks under /usr/bin. Some such commands, for various
reasons, are implemented via other packages, most commonly GNU
coreutils. (I presume some thought has been given to *which* commands
should be provided by GNU coreutils, though I wonder why the system uses
gnu-coreutils true and rust-coreutils for false.)

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