Re: util-linux and perl rename

[Thorsten Wilms]

On 26/11/2018 06.12, Alex Vong wrote:
> To eliminate this conflict, I can think of 2 solutions:
>
>    1. Use 2 separate profiles where one has util-linux installed and the
>    other has rename installed.
>
>    2. Install util-linux into the default profile, but invoke rename by
>    "guix environment --ad-hoc rename -- rename ..." instead of
>    "rename ..."
>
> These 2 solutions work in general as well, such as for conflicting
> library versions, conflicting language runtimes...
>
> I prefer the 2nd solution since maintaining 2 separate profiles just for
> using rename seems too "heavy weight" to me.

Thanks for 2 solutions. Luckily, I don't need access to the util-linux 
rename. I have to note, that if I was working on scripts with the 
intention to share them with users of other distributions, the 2nd 
wouldn't be an option. Too bad we don't have command URIs :}

I would have been tempted to put a symlink in /usr/local/bin, but 
there's no "latest-of-package-foo" to link to, right?

Is there a way to get a list of all name clashes on the system?


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