To George Zarkadas, Regarding the package conflict between gnu parallel and moreutils parallel.
I am using gnu parallel on both Debian and Redhat and sometimes other systems. It would be no help to me if there some day came a Debian gnu parallel package named 'gparallel'. I would still have to install from tar-ball or my own package. I think there was one person suggesting to put moreutils parallel into a package called moreutils-parallel and then remove it from the moreutils package. I think that would be solution everyone could live with. No-one would install both packages and if they want to switch it is fairly simple. It is really not very relevant to talk about which implementation is the "newcomer" but it is actually moreutils parallel which is the new one. At least it says here: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/history.html I think all the problems comes from that gnu parallel was not written in C and the moreutils parallel has a lack of features and no one to catch up on it. Not an easy thing to deal with. Question: Is it possible to make a good solution in /etc/alternatives/ ? best regards Hans Schou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktinmxc9mbnoweqs2ugfda9t3uq_...@mail.gmail.com
