Bug#551932: mpd and mpich2: error when trying to install together

[Max Kellermann]

On 2009/10/22 13:35, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> Decklin, what are your thoughts on this? Would it make sense to move the
> Music Playing Daemon's mpd binary to /usr/sbin/, and the manpage to
> section 8? I have the impression (perhaps wrongly) that mpd is mainly
> start via an init script, so it wouldn't hurt too badly.

Yes, I know a whole lot of users who run MPD as a regular user.  It is
perfectly possible to run MPD on login in ~/.xsession, and there are
good reasons for doing so.

Besides that, your suggestion isn't a solution at all, because it does
not address the real problem: that there are two binaries with the
same name.  It's just an attempt to hide the symptom (path name
conflict).

> The problem is that mpd is a key binary in the mpich2 package,
> referenced all over the place, and it would really be confusing for
> users to rename it to (say) mpich2-mpd.

It would be confusing for users if /usr/bin/mpd doesn't start the
Music Player Daemon anymore, after more than 6 years.  Same thing.

There are more problems to come: mpd.py references files named
/etc/mpd.conf and ~/.mpd.conf.  Music Player Daemon uses /etc/mpd.conf
and ~/.mpdconf.  Talk about confusion.

Max