On Mon Jun 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM BST, Anssi Saari wrote:
I certainly don't want both parallel and parallel.moreutils in /usr/bin. How many more files would need to be added in /usr/bin to satisfy all possible conflicts?
What OP wishes for is a stable path to a moreutils binary, from one or the other package. They are not perfectly equivalent. Satisfying their wish doesn't necessarily mean adding more binaries to /usr/bin. It doesn't seem like an unreasonable request to me.
I think you'll just need to add some tedious boilerplate code to your scripts to figure out which, if any, parallel is installed.
I'd have faith that we could resolve this in the archive; although best case it would take some time for a solution to percolate through to a stable release.
