dmd debian installation conflicts with debian-goodies

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 28 10:45:04 PDT 2017


On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 06:09:06AM -0400, Ralph Amissah via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Installing dmd if debian-goodies is installed fails. Both try to write a file
> named '/usr/bin/dman'
[...]

I filed a bug for you:

	    https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17569

(Next time, please file a bug directly at https://issues.dlang.org/, as
problems reported on the forum may get overlooked / forgotten.)

This is a pretty major issue IMO, because this gratuitous conflict with
an unfortunately-named, marginal utility can be a big turnoff for Debian
users who may be wanting to try out D for the first time.  The last
thing we need is for something I doubt anyone (other than certain D
devs) actually uses to become a reason to turn away from D, just because
by random chance he also has the debian-goodies package installed.


T

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