Package: dlocate
Version: 1.02
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
The 'parallel' package diverts a command in the 'moreutils' package.
'-lsman' & '-lsbin' don't reflect that change:
% { dlocate -lsman moreutils ; dlocate -lsbin moreutils ; } | grep parallel
/usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz
/usr/bin/parallel
Which creates a little illusion of duplicate filenames in lines
#1 & #3 and #2 & #4 below:
# feed the last command back to 'dlocate', filter out diversions:
% { dlocate -lsman moreutils ; dlocate -lsbin moreutils ; } | grep parallel
| xargs dlocate | grep -v diversion | nl
1 moreutils: /usr/bin/parallel
2 moreutils: /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz
3 parallel: /usr/bin/parallel
4 parallel: /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz
No duplicate filenames exist under '/usr/' of course.
A diversion search reveals:
% dlocate parallel | grep diversion
diversion by parallel from: /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.1.gz
diversion by parallel to: /usr/share/man/man1/parallel.moreutils.1.gz
diversion by parallel from: /usr/bin/parallel
diversion by parallel to: /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils
Wouldn't it be simpler to have the '-ls*' switch output show
the diversion names (where applicable) instead? Hypothetical output:
% dlocate -lsman moreutils | grep parallel
/usr/bin/parallel.moreutils
HTH...
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