Arch Linux

Can add a conflict.

That would be problematic for people who need both.

The problem is there either way. Updated the chicken package to conflict with mono.

Please ask the mono or chicken developers to change the name of the binary.

I don't think that you will have much luck that the projects will rename their binaries. You can try, but I think that will take a while. If you have a look and search the issue I have found something on a mailing list which is from 2004 with the same issue! Seems that both projects have the same binary name since ages.

As mono is the younger project, Debian solved this by renaming mono's `/usr/bin/csc` to `/usr/bin/mono-csc`. If the upstream mono project is unwilling to change (which is likely given the length of time this has been an issue) a similar rename would likely be the solution of least surprise for Arch.

[1] http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Re-Best-way-to-solve-a-file-conflict-between-packages-td1551944.html
[2] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/mono-devel/filelist
[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/all/mono-devel/filelist

Edit:

Just a couple of extra points:
1) the mono package introduced the conflicting file, so technically mono conflicts with chicken.
2) please don't leave a rename to `mono-csc` without action for an extended period of time; the file was only recently introduced so noone should yet be relying upon it.

+1 for renaming csc to mono-csc too. Too sad pacman can't ignore conflicts.

Any updates on this? The longer we wait, the more potential breakage there will be.

Additionally, has there been any effort to get upstream to use the mono-csc name? I doubt upstream will be happy with a situation that requires various distributions to rename their tools, causing widespread inconsistencies between systems...

I believe the "correct" solution is to just rename mono's /usr/bin/csc to /usr/bin/mono-csc, like Debian did.

A more comfortable solution for users, but less minimalistic and not so much in the spirit of Arch Linux, would be to have a "csc" package which provides a /usr/bin/csc symlink, and a config script that lets the user configure if chicken or mono should be pointed to by /usr/bin/csc. If only mono or only chicken is installed, /usr/bin/csc would point to that.

Another, more ambitious solution, would be to create a global system of reserved executable names and make all major distros join in. This could potentially solve the problem for other packages in the future.

Added upstream bug report/feature request for this: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60838

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quine-relay in AUR is uninstallable because of the conflict that mono introduced.

Any news on this?

This will never be fixed in mono [1]. The chicken pkg has the workaround.

[1] https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/9056