[gentoo-user] Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

[gentoo-user] Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

[Grant Edwards]

I'm trying to install gnu interactive tools (apps-misc/gnuit),
but it is being blocked by the git source code management
application (dev-util/get):

   alpha grante # emerge -av gnuit
   
   These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
   
   Calculating dependencies... done!
   [ebuild  N    ] app-misc/gnuit-4.9.5  874 kB
   [blocks B     ] dev-util/git[gtk] ("dev-util/git[gtk]" is blocking app-misc/gnui        t-4.9.5)

I can't figure out what the two have to do with each other.  I
rarely use git, so I guess I could uninstall it -- but why
would gnuit be blocked by git?

Does this have something to do with the fact that
apps-misc/gnuit used to be called apps-misc/git?
   
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[gentoo-user] Re: Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-09-08, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

>    alpha grante # emerge -av gnuit
>    
>    These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>    
>    Calculating dependencies... done!
>    [ebuild  N    ] app-misc/gnuit-4.9.5  874 kB
>    [blocks B     ] dev-util/git[gtk] ("dev-util/git[gtk]" is blocking app-misc/gnui        t-4.9.5)
>
> I can't figure out what the two have to do with each other.  I
> rarely use git, so I guess I could uninstall it -- but why
> would gnuit be blocked by git?

Both packages install (unrelated) executables named "gitview".

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Dienstag 08 September 2009 21:24:52 schrieb Grant Edwards:
> Does this have something to do with the fact that
> apps-misc/gnuit used to be called apps-misc/git?

I'd rather say it has something to do with the fact that both packages provide 
a binary called /usr/bin/git,

Bye...

	Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Dienstag 08 September 2009 21:32:42 schrieb Grant Edwards:
> Both packages install (unrelated) executables named "gitview".

Yeah, just seen it in the ebuild:

# dev-util/git[gtk] installs the gitview tool which collides with this
# package.

Just remove the gtk flag from git and you can install both.

Bye...

	Dirk

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-09-08, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 08 September 2009 21:32:42 schrieb Grant Edwards:

>> Both packages install (unrelated) executables named "gitview".
>
> Yeah, just seen it in the ebuild:
>
> # dev-util/git[gtk] installs the gitview tool which collides with this
> # package.

I should have known to look in the ebuild file.

> Just remove the gtk flag from git and you can install both.

Yup.  Just did that.  I'm surprised this sort of name collision
doesn't happen more often.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

[walt]

On 09/08/2009 12:24 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm trying to install gnu interactive tools (apps-misc/gnuit),
> but it is being blocked by the git source code management
> application (dev-util/get):
>
>     alpha grante # emerge -av gnuit
>
>     These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
>     Calculating dependencies... done!
>     [ebuild  N    ] app-misc/gnuit-4.9.5  874 kB
>     [blocks B     ] dev-util/git[gtk] ("dev-util/git[gtk]" is blocking app-misc/gnui        t-4.9.5)
>
> I can't figure out what the two have to do with each other.  I
> rarely use git, so I guess I could uninstall it -- but why
> would gnuit be blocked by git?
>
> Does this have something to do with the fact that
> apps-misc/gnuit used to be called apps-misc/git?

The collision was caused by Linus himself.  He decided to name his
new version control system 'git' without checking to see if anyone
else was using the name, and by the time the gnu-interactive-tools
devs got around to objecting, Linus just plowed right over them,
saying (literally) "tough".

It was really rather rude, and the only time I've been disappointed
by Linus.