From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 58720 invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2017 16:34:25 -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 58710 invoked by uid 89); 16 Nov 2017 16:34:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,KAM_SHORT,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=tension, hesitatnt, moreutils, clashes X-HELO: smtp-out-2.tiscali.co.uk Received: from smtp-out-2.tiscali.co.uk (HELO smtp-out-2.tiscali.co.uk) (62.24.135.130) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:34:23 +0000 Received: from [10.7.7.59] ([88.150.206.166]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id FN7GePRKpR9T7FN7MebH4b; Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:34:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [ITP] moreutils 0.61 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20171115131044.GJ20681@dinwoodie.org> <87tvxvfl74.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20171115204316.GK20681@dinwoodie.org> <20171116150816.GL20681@dinwoodie.org> From: David Stacey Message-ID: <99f2b651-e7d0-b443-f4ee-ba966d556374@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:34:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 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-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfNWjrwzsms57mTo16PmaLRx03Nqx/85FXRqG7AkqxBj+XBQwM4HxpyFnWqUZuW/PtTNCoZ1uPnZE8Q9mZrr+jPHnxreMvoJfU5kdirkz6hcgf+I8a0Pn PqOk5+WY7EFlqc1Nz3ArGF3ApsIUS9L6lhAkcuONFzqPnY4/AAw/1MpFYKTyHMxb5zzOqJnLFAbMkQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 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.