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Package: moreutils
Version: 0.41
Severity: wishlist
Please retire the parallel program in favor of the far more featurful
GNU Parallel package:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34.6-core2-ii (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages moreutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii perl 5.10.1-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
moreutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages moreutils suggests:
pn libtime-duration-perl <none> (no description available)
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
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----- Forwarded message from Joey Hess <[email protected]> -----
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 15:59:12 -0400
From: Joey Hess <[email protected]>
To: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#665851: Bug#597050: GNU parallel, name conflict with moreutils
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
I think it's illustrative of the upstream for "GNU parallel" that
- It includes a /usr/bin/sql program, which is the best example of
namespace pollution I have ever thought of.
- It has a completely absurd number of options including gems such as
--skip-first-line (because tail is too hard?), --trim (because sed is
too hard to use?) --xargs (???), and has already grown real bloat
that includes the ability to tranfer files between computers.
It is 5143 lines of code, and the anthethesis of a simple, clean,
well-designed unix command.
- The parallem program contains code that detects if stdin is a terminal
and whines at the user in a most non-unix way.
- Its author is apparently not aware of this when responding to bug
reports, and tries to use it as a justification to remove the --tollef
compatability option, which it has nothing to do with.
- The --tollef compatability option is not compatible with even the
first example on the man page of that program.
- The --tollef compatability option was, AFAIK, named without getting
the permission of the person it refers to, and therefore essentially
drags his good name through the mud.
- (It's also wasted far, far more of our collective time than it's worth.)
At this point, I feel that "GNU parallel" is at best doing nothing but
reinforcing negative stereotypes about the GNU project producing
bloatware, and at worst, indicates that the GNU project provides
false legitimacy to projects at this level of quality.
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