On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Ian Zimmerman <i...@buug.org> wrote: > Rogério> GNU parallel, to be compatible, also exposes that behavior, > Rogério> when invoked with the --tollef option. Otherwise, it is the > Rogério> pure GNU parallel behaviour. > > Rogério> The default behavior in Debian was chosen to be --tollef as > Rogério> moreutils's presence in Debian predated GNU parallel for some > Rogério> time and to not interfere with users that happen to have both > Rogério> moreutils and GNU parallel installed. > > I see. I mistakenly thought this dual personality was a Debian > invention. As it is it's clearly an upstream bug, they should document > it in the manpage or at least in the README.
It is assumed that you do not enable --tollef by accident, and you only enable it to get compatibility with Tollef's parallel (i.e. you know what you are doing). That is why there is a warning when you run: parallel --version (with --tollef enabled in /etc/parallel/config) which you - according to documentation - must do before filing a bug report. I am somewhat annoyed that --tollef gives me more support work. --tollef was implemented to _avoid_ more support work by providing backwards compatibility to existing Tollef's parallel users to ease their migration to GNU Parallel. But if --tollef proves to give me more support work it might be preferable to retire that option. I would tend to agree with Ian: If I had explicitly asked to get GNU Parallel installed I would not expect it to go into tollef mode (It will be fair to call me biased here). /Ole -- Did you get your GNU Parallel merchandise? https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/merchandise.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
