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moreutils indeed has some great utils, but a minor annoyance it causes is still shipping a `parallel` tool which is relatively useless, but causes confusion for
by JulianWasTaken 5y ago
moreutils indeed has some great utils, but a minor annoyance it causes is still shipping a `parallel` tool which is relatively useless, but causes confusion for new users or conflict (for package managers) with the way way way more indispensable GNU parallel.
- yesenadam 5y agoWhen I installed moreutils v0.67 with macports just now it said: moreutils has the following notes: The binary parallel is no longer in this port; please install the port parallel instead. i.e. GNU parallel
- JulianWasTaken 5y agoYup, homebrew and other package managers do similar it's what I meant by > conflict (for package managers)
- omoikane 5y ago`parallel` seems redundant because it appears that `xargs -P` can accomplish the same effect, except the "-l maxload" option.
- rmilk 5y agoBut that’s the point of parallel. The use case is for when you have N processors and a 10Gb NIC. Each job is CPU bound or concurrent license bound, or some jobs may take longer than others. Parallel allows you to run X jobs simultaneously to keep the CPU or licenses busy.
- JulianWasTaken 5y agoIf you mean GNU parallel, it has way way more features than xargs -P, (and a few saner defaults). See e.g. https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html If you mean moreutils parallel, yeah I agree it's not useful.
- dredmorbius 5y agoI was going to comment on this. I still think Joey is in the wrong here. The Debian BTS thread: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749355 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749355 (I'm still trying to sort out what the resolution was, though it appears divert was used.)
- petepete 5y agoOn the bright side, the moreutils version doesn't have a nag screen.