On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:17:47AM +0200, Michele Orru` wrote: > Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> writes: > > > Given the state of the discussions at the time when I decided that the > > conflicts was the path of least resistance and that I am sincerely not sure > > how things have evolved, I would, yes, appreciate your help with the social > > side of things.
Could you give us a pointer to that old discussion, or a summary of it?
> > BTW, be warned that in current versions of parallel (which I have not yet
> > packaged, but will soon) the compatibility option with moreutils was pending
> > to be removed or is removed already, which would make things even harder.
> Wouldn't it be possible to let the user decide by himself via
> `update-alternatives`?
That is actually the way things were working before the Conflicts was
added.
> The discussion may converge as well on the default symlink, but at least
> one could use some moreutil's tools in pair with gnu parallel.
I would also really appreciate that.
For the record, no package depends on GNU parallel, and only one package
(ikiwiki-hosting-web) has a hard Depends on moreutils. The other
dependencies are Recommends: debci, git-notifiyer and Suggests: cacti,
nagios-plugins-contrib, pkg-perl-tools.
> For example, consider the following use case:
> $ cat foo.txt | parallel ./bar.sh | sponge foo.txt
> Which is right now not possible in debian jessie.
It's also impossible to use something like --pipe with moreutil's
parallel, which is really annoying and confusing.
A.
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