[Bug 675495] Review Request: parallel - Shell tool for executing jobs in parallel

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--- Comment #3 from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> 2011-02-06 07:34:49 EST ---
The only sane two options I can think of right now are either to wait upstreams
to resolve the issue, or to ship GNU parallel with the executable, man page and
references to the executable in the man page renamed to something.  If
renaming, I suggest gparallel because that's already done in the wild to some
extent (see below), and many GNU utilities have the g prefix anyway to
distinguish them from other similar tools with the same name.

I did some research what other distributions do:

Gentoo takes the gparallel approach:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-process/parallel/parallel-20110122.ebuild?revision=1.1&view=markup

FreeBSD splits parallel from moreutils into moreutils-parallel:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/parallel/Makefile?rev=1.8
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/moreutils-parallel/Makefile?rev=1.1
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152973

Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva and openSUSE don't seem to have GNU parallel packages
available.

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