Source: pkg-perl-tools Version: 0.47 Severity: wishlist Hi! While looking at users of "parallel" (wrt its licensing problem), I noticed quite bizarre handling:
PARALLEL= if which parallel > /dev/null ; then if parallel --will-cite < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1; then PARALLEL=GNU else PARALLEL="moreutils" fi else echo "W: 'parallel' not available, will run sequentially" >&2 echo "W: you may want to install 'parallel' or 'moreutils'" >&2 fi if [ -n "$PARALLEL" ]; then if [ "$PARALLEL" = "GNU" ]; then find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -name .git | \ parallel --will-cite sh -c "GIT_DIR='{}' git gc --quiet" else find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -name .git -print0 | \ xargs -r0 parallel -i sh -c "GIT_DIR='{}' git gc --quiet" -- fi else All this complexity just because bin:parallel installs an incompatible executable for this name and diverts it over moreutils' version... But, there's an even simpler option: use "xargs -P". You even already have xargs in the code above... As xargs is in an Essential package, you won't even need any dependency anymore. Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.7+ (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)