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Ok, I realise I'm probably one of the only people that's got clustering software installed on the same machine as my music player daemon, but there is good reason for it... 5:) I'm currently testing out a patch for johntheripper that allows john to crack passwords on a cluster, or (more aptly) on a multiprocessor system. During the course of trying to get this to work, I got a bit of a shock when mpirun tried to start reading my mpd.conf. It turns out both systems use the same config file. It's probably too rare a problem to be worth fixing, but I thought I'd file it anyway just in case. If you'd like to mark this as WONTFIX, that's fine by me. 5:)
Actually, this is slightly worse than I first thought. It turns out they both write to /usr/bin/mpd, so installing one after the other will break the first one...
FEATURES="collision-protect" for t3h win! BTW, isn't it mandatory for devs? :P
We can't really change the mpich daemon configuration file location, that's just too nonstandard and would break stuff. It wouldn't surprise me if the same were true for mpd. Maybe a blocker's the way to go.
Jakub: you can have collision-protect zillion times in your FEATURES, if you're not actually using both packages - and how many people use both mpich2 and mpd (as Mike already mentioned) ? As for mpd.conf and /usr/bin/mpd files installed by media-sound/mpd, I really do not want to change them from upstream's designated names. I imagine this is the same for sys-cluster/mpich2 maintainer, so I'm afraid blocker is the only way to go. As a side note, Debian call their mpich2's mpd "mpich-mpd-bin".
Yep, not a problem. Blocker sounds like the best way to go (don't forget mpd-svn). Thanks... 5:)
OK, added a block to both mpd an mpd-svn. Donnie added the block to mpich2, so we're good to close this bug. Thanks everybody.
*** Bug 179477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***