GNU bug report logs - #29419
[RFC PATCH] gnu: Add rename.

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Message #11 received at 29419 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 29419 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#29419] [RFC PATCH] gnu: Add rename.
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 22:32:22 +0100

Hello,

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:

> It installs an executable called 'rename' which conflicts with the
> (limited) one in util-linux, due to the latter being part of
> %base-packages.

Is this conflict a hindrance in practice?

> Are there preferences to either:
>
> * Install this one as 'perl-rename'; or
> * Drop the `rename` executable from util-linux.
>
> If there are no comments I'll go with the conservative #1.

Either way is fine with me.  (At some point I’d like to avoid Perl
dependencies in %base-packages if possible, though.)

The util-linux change would be for ‘core-updates’, which maybe doesn’t
address your immediate needs.

Ludo’.

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