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

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--- Comment #4 from Golo Fuchert <packages at golotop.de> 2011-02-08 15:51:03 EST ---
This is a tough one. What I learned so far:
- The developer of GNU parallel says that the first version of his program 
  would date back to 2001, but version control was introduced much later. He 
  argues that renaming on a per-distribution basis would cause problems between
  machines running different distributions, since GNU parallel runs itself on
  remote machines while distributing the work load.
- The problem for the parallel of moreutils seems to be that a lot of other 
  things depend on this. So they are not wanting to rename either.
- The Fedora packager of moreutils thinks that splitting up moreutils into a 
  core package and a parallel sub-package is a bad idea, since it might be
  the case that on a multiuser system both packages ought to be used.
- Personally, I really don't like the idea of a conflict between GNU parallel 
  and the moreutils package, since moreutils is a collection of different tools
  and I can think of users that want to use tools from that, but the GNU
  implementation of parallel.

So, what is the least bad solution? I don't know yet...

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