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FS#28627 - [moreutils, parallel] Support installing both simultaneous

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Kazuo Teramoto (kazuo) - Friday, 24 February 2012, 14:37 GMT
Last edited by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 13:19 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Timothy Redaelli (tredaelli)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

moreutils and parallel conflict because of /usr/bin/parallel and the man pages
associated.

The one in community/parallel have a lot more features than the one provided
by community/moreutils and it can provide a complete replacement (with a
different syntax) that the one in moreutils. For example

moreutils:
parallel -j 3 echo -- 1 2 3 4

parallel:
parallel -j 3 echo ::: 1 2 3 4

But moreutils have a lot of other utils that are very useful. I like to
install both and I think this can be useful.

I propose to rename /usr/bin/parallel in one of then (as a precedence,
community/mupdf do the same thing because of conflicts with extra/popper).

Now, gnu parallel (the one packaged as community/parallel) have a configure
option to add a prefix or suffix, I used this when the package are in aur,
e.g., `--program-prefix=g` change the binary to /usr/bin/gparallel *and* the
man pages also. Clean.

I prefer to change the name of the version with less features, i.e., the one
in community/moreutils. But moreutils is older in the repo, so it can have a
name priority.

What you guys think?
This task depends upon

Closed by  Sergej Pupykin (sergej)
Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 13:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Timothy Redaelli (tredaelli) - Thursday, 01 March 2012, 14:01 GMT
I think we can do it (gparallel), maybe with a post-installation message to inform the user about the change.

Sergej, what do you think?
Comment by Sergej Pupykin (sergej) - Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 13:19 GMT
>> I prefer to change the name of the version with less features

I am too, done

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