diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index b6d288c54f..2d23667953 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -2583,6 +2583,9 @@ F:	support/misc/toolchainfile.cmake.in
 N:	Sam Voss <sam.voss@gmail.com>
 F:	package/ripgrep/
 
+N:	Sebastian Weyer <sebastian.weyer@smile.fr>
+F:	package/uutils-coreutils
+
 N:	Sébastien Szymanski <sebastien.szymanski@armadeus.com>
 F:	package/mmc-utils/
 F:	package/python-flask-jsonrpc/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 0f8dab3e71..79bbe0b44d 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -2725,6 +2725,7 @@ menu "System tools"
 	source "package/tpm2-totp/Config.in"
 	source "package/unscd/Config.in"
 	source "package/util-linux/Config.in"
+	source "package/uutils-coreutils/Config.in"
 	source "package/watchdog/Config.in"
 	source "package/watchdogd/Config.in"
 	source "package/xdg-dbus-proxy/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox.mk b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
index 1633ca525d..d8000ddbb4 100644
--- a/package/busybox/busybox.mk
+++ b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ BUSYBOX_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_UNZIP),unzip) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_USBUTILS),usbutils) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX),util-linux) \
+	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_UUTILS_COREUTILS),uutils-coreutils) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_VIM),vim) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_WATCHDOG),watchdog) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_WGET),wget) \
diff --git a/package/coreutils/Config.in b/package/coreutils/Config.in
index 705013bae0..9c1af1dc25 100644
--- a/package/coreutils/Config.in
+++ b/package/coreutils/Config.in
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_COREUTILS
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS
+	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_UUTILS_COREUTILS
 	help
 	  All of the basic file/text/shell utilities. These are the
 	  core utilities which are expected to exist on every system.
diff --git a/package/uutils-coreutils/0001-GNUMakefile-remove-dependency-on-build-during-instal.patch b/package/uutils-coreutils/0001-GNUMakefile-remove-dependency-on-build-during-instal.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a2e4a17ac0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/uutils-coreutils/0001-GNUMakefile-remove-dependency-on-build-during-instal.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From ed387083221501aaf5d8752aab83669174e0bb43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sebastian Weyer <sebastian.weyer@smile.fr>
+Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:57:13 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] GNUMakefile: remove dependency on build during install
+
+When building using buildroot, we only call install after having built
+already, therefore we don't want to have to rebuild.
+
+Upstream status: not applicable; Buildroot specific
+Signed-off-by: Sebastian Weyer <sebastian.weyer@smile.fr>
+---
+ GNUmakefile | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
+index b242bc8ce..faecf420b 100644
+--- a/GNUmakefile
++++ b/GNUmakefile
+@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ clean:
+ distclean: clean
+ 	$(CARGO) clean $(CARGOFLAGS) && $(CARGO) update $(CARGOFLAGS)
+ 
+-install: build
++install:
+ 	mkdir -p $(INSTALLDIR_BIN)
+ ifeq (${MULTICALL}, y)
+ 	$(INSTALL) $(BUILDDIR)/coreutils $(INSTALLDIR_BIN)/$(PROG_PREFIX)coreutils
+-- 
+2.25.1
+
diff --git a/package/uutils-coreutils/Config.in b/package/uutils-coreutils/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..97ddd4b096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/uutils-coreutils/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_UUTILS_COREUTILS
+	bool "uutils-coreutils"
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_RUSTC_TARGET_ARCH_SUPPORTS
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_RUSTC
+	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BUSYBOX_SHOW_OTHERS
+	help
+	  uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in
+	  cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust. While all programs have
+	  been implemented, some options might be missing or different
+	  behavior might be experienced.
+
+	  https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
diff --git a/package/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils.hash b/package/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca90a0c9f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Locally generated
+sha256  5bc773bcbc66851aa17979df44224c66c0b5323044c3c9cefb925b44ee9cd81b  uutils-coreutils-0.0.17.tar.gz
+sha256  a836eb3360d0e80f6a1620495543ad2a4e20e4cf72af89ff528fccf9e63be81e  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils.mk b/package/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0ea06ff5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/uutils-coreutils/uutils-coreutils.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# uutils-coreutils
+#
+################################################################################
+
+UUTILS_COREUTILS_VERSION = 0.0.17
+UUTILS_COREUTILS_SITE = $(call github,uutils,coreutils,$(UUTILS_COREUTILS_VERSION))
+UUTILS_COREUTILS_LICENSE = MIT
+UUTILS_COREUTILS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+ifneq ($(BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG),y)
+UUTILS_COREUTILS_PROFILE = release
+else
+UUTILS_COREUTILS_PROFILE = debug
+endif
+
+UUTILS_COREUTILS_MAKE_OPTS = \
+	PROFILE=$(UUTILS_COREUTILS_PROFILE) \
+	MULTICALL=y
+
+UUTILS_COREUTILS_CARGO_BUILD_OPTS = --features unix
+
+#We are using the project's Makefile to install the application
+#If we were to use the cargo infrastructure, we can only copy the multicall
+#binary into the target folder. The call to the target's Makefile will do that
+#and also automatically create the required symlinks
+define UUTILS_COREUTILS_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) \
+		$(UUTILS_COREUTILS_MAKE_OPTS) -C $(@D) \
+		BUILDDIR=$(@D)/target/$(RUSTC_TARGET_NAME)/$(UUTILS_COREUTILS_PROFILE) \
+		PREFIX=$(TARGET_DIR) install
+endef
+
+$(eval $(cargo-package))
