From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 96277 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2017 17:20:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 96266 invoked by uid 89); 20 Nov 2017 17:20:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=refuse, leaning, packaged, Hx-languages-length:1494 X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:20:10 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E32020DDC for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:20:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:20:07 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-158-32-25.range86-158.btcentralplus.com [86.158.32.25]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B417B24A99 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:20:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61 References: <20171115131044.GJ20681@dinwoodie.org> <87tvxvfl74.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20171115204316.GK20681@dinwoodie.org> <20171116150816.GL20681@dinwoodie.org> From: Jon Turney To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Message-ID: <88b9a5cb-459a-25e3-b8e9-341bf07d7601@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:20:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171116150816.GL20681@dinwoodie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 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 :)