Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61

[David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>]

On 16/11/17 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'd be hesitatnt to package that since it directly clashes with GNU
>>>> parallel (not available on Cygwin yet).
>>> Hmm.  I wasn't aware of GNU parallel, and I'm not sure how that sort of
>>> problem is generally handled.  Possibly that could be broken out into a
>>> separate package to make it easier for folk to install one or the other?
>>> I considered and decided against breaking the entire lot into separate
>>> packages, but this is perhaps a good argument for at least separating
>>> that.
>> This has been a long source of tension between moreutils' author and the
>> debian packager (probably fedora and other distros too). I don't know off
>> the top of my head what solution those distros have come up with for the
>> name conflict but they may be doing something worth investigating and
>> imitating.
>>
>> I have made frequent use of mispipe and ts, and would probably use other
>> pieces of moreutils if I remembered them better, so I'd use and appreciate
>> a cygwin package of them - assuming a solution is found to the potential
>> name conflict.
> It looks like both OS X's Homebrew and Debian's Apt deal with this by
> just having the packages conflict.

Several other distros do likewise: Fedora / CentOS, openSUSE, Slackware, 
Ubuntu.
See https://pkgs.org/download//usr/bin/parallel

Dave.