Bug 328829

Summary:	sys-apps/moreutils-0.39 should be split
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick Howell <bugzilla.nlhowell>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	split moreutils ebuild parallel ebuild mispipe ebuild combine ebuild ifdata ebuild ifne ebuild isutf8 ebuild lckdo ebuild pee ebuild sponge ebuild ts (moreutils) ebuild vidir ebuild vipe ebuild zrun ebuild

Description Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:29:18 UTC

moreutils contains several independent applications; on principle they should be split. 

Additionally, GNU parallel (http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) will conflict if/when its added to the tree, and sys-process/ts (in Sunrise) already conflicts. (GNU parallel and moreutils parallel are different programs.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -av moreutils

Actual Results:  
One package is installed containing 13 completely different programs. If you have sys-process/ts installed, you can't install any of them.

Expected Results:  
I can pick which programs I want to install. If I want all of them, I install moreutils, but I can also install just sys-apps/isutf8 if I want.

Shouldn't be too hard to split. Some scripts are in perl, some are C. A simple sed on the Makefile should cause it to only compile and install a particular program.

Comment 1 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:30:38 UTC

Created attachment 239253 [details]
split moreutils ebuild

Comment 2 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:31:19 UTC

Created attachment 239255 [details]
parallel ebuild

Comment 3 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:31:34 UTC

Created attachment 239257 [details]
mispipe ebuild

Comment 4 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:31:47 UTC

Created attachment 239259 [details]
combine ebuild

Comment 5 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:31:57 UTC

Created attachment 239261 [details]
ifdata ebuild

Comment 6 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:32:10 UTC

Created attachment 239263 [details]
ifne ebuild

Comment 7 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:32:20 UTC

Created attachment 239265 [details]
isutf8 ebuild

Comment 8 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:32:50 UTC

Created attachment 239267 [details]
lckdo ebuild

Comment 9 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:33:24 UTC

Created attachment 239269 [details]
pee ebuild

Comment 10 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:33:38 UTC

Created attachment 239271 [details]
sponge ebuild

Comment 11 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:33:57 UTC

Created attachment 239273 [details]
ts (moreutils) ebuild

Comment 12 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:34:07 UTC

Created attachment 239275 [details]
vidir ebuild

Comment 13 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:34:17 UTC

Created attachment 239277 [details]
vipe ebuild

Comment 14 Nick Howell 2010-07-18 16:34:31 UTC

Created attachment 239279 [details]
zrun ebuild

Comment 15 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-18 16:45:23 UTC

Sorry, but it wont be happening... The maintaince cost is too high.