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Oh so that’s it! I use GNU parallel a lot, and installed moreutils yesterday, and parallel seemed to behave a bit… different. Couldn’t quite understand why, as
by stingraycharles 5y ago
Oh so that’s it! I use GNU parallel a lot, and installed moreutils yesterday, and parallel seemed to behave a bit… different. Couldn’t quite understand why, as I didn’t expect moreutils to replace parallel when you install them.
I’m using Arch, btw.
- rurban 5y agoThey wanted to get rid of perl, so someone reimplemented 60% of it in C. Nobody continued with the rest, and so it's just annoyance.
- kefyras 5y agoI'm sorry, what? First, moreutils package installs its parallel as parallel-moreutils. Second, pacman (like any other pm) wouldn't allow overwriting files belonging to other packages.