Le 22/03/2026 à 11:38, Olaf Meeuwissen a écrit :
> Didier Kryn<kryn@???> writes:
>
>> [...]
>> IMHO the qmount project currently on devuangit is
>> smarter. Nevertheless I think it should be renamed to not conflict
>> with the other one. [...]
> Does it? There are two versions of `yq` as well. Both do the same
> thing but support different sets of options. Devuan ships the Python
> version[1]. Other distributions, Alpinelinux included, IIRC, ship the
> Go version[2].
>
> [1]:https://github.com/kislyuk/yq
> [2]:https://github.com/mikefarah/yq
>
> Distributions can ship both by making them mutually conflict and the
> user gets to pick (and learn how to use) whichever version tyhey opted
> for.
>
> That said, it is a bit confusing if you have to deal with both across
> different distributions. It took me a while to figure out why my yq
> invocation worked fine on Devuan but bombed on Alpine ;-)
>
> Hope this helps,
Sorry Olaf: it doesn't help (~: it rather leads me to hesitate. I
doubt the golang qmount gets any popularity because it seems a real
bricolage and is very permissive: it apparently allows to mount any
partition, so that no distro will ever provide it. So what to do?
Keeping things like they are is very tempting.
-- Didier