Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 16/11/2017 15:08, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 08:52 pm +0000, Tony Kelman wrote:
>>>>>> -   parallel: run multiple jobs at once
> 
> I'm guessing setup-*.exe doesn't have the ability to detect and handle
> this sort of conflict, but I can see a bunch of alternative options:
> 
> -   Do nothing for now and deal with the problem as and when someone
>      ITPs GNU parallel.
> 
> -   Add detection for this sort of conflict somehow, and refuse to allow
>      users to install conflicting packages.

I'm pretty sure already have some undiagnosed conflicts like this 
already, so a potential future one isn't any great impairment.

Marking packages as mutually conflicting is perhaps within reach, as 
it's something that would be relatively straightforward with 
libsolv-based setup.

Automatically detecting such packages is more work, but something that 
could also be done.

> -   Document the conflict in release announcements but otherwise do
>      nothing, and allow the packages to overwrite each other if both are
>      installed.
> 
> -   Rename moreutils parallel (e.g. `mparallel`) so it doesn't conflict.
> 
> -   As and when GNU parallel is packaged, rename it (e.g. `gparallel`)
>      so it doesn't conflict.
> 
> -   Just refuse to package one or the other for Cygwin.
> 
> I'm leaning towards either doing nothing and leaving it as a problem for
> the future

Yeah, laziness and inertia solve all problems, because if you wait long 
enough, the problems go away :)