Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675495 --- Comment #6 from Golo Fuchert <packages@xxxxxxxxxx> 2011-02-10 13:46:26 EST --- Finally, we may have found a solution! The starting point is that there won't be an upstream renaming soon. There were good arguments against splitting the moreutils package or renaming on a per-distribution base (see comment #4). In a discussion with the developer of GNU parallel the following proposal came up: The moreutils package is split into moreutils and moreutils-parallel. The GNU parallel package would then conflict with the moreutils-parallel package. To prevent any problems with the wrong version of parallel being installed, GNU parallel implements a compatibility mode, so that it is called exactly like moreutils' parallel. Thus, every script written for moreutils' implementation would still run as expected. This compatibility mode would be turned _on_ by default in Fedora, so the user has to make parallel "incompatible" purely deliberately by editing a config file. The compatibility flag could be set system wide (/etc/parallel/config) and may be overwritten by every single user (~/.parallel/config). So, to brake compatibility _by chance_, the user would have to 1.) install the package of GNU parallel and 2.) deactivate the compatibility mode. This seems very unlikely to me. The packager of moreutils agreed to this proposal. So, if there are no objections I will wait for the next version of GNU parallel with the compatibility mode included, change the spec file to conflict with the then existing moreutils-parallel and post the new files in this ticket. I guess it would be best to make those changes for rawhide then, leaving F13 and F14 unaffected. In every case I would like to thank Ole Tange from GNU parallel and Marc Bradshaw (Fedora packager for moreutils) for their efforts. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review