[m-rev.] Mercury mmc conflicts with mmc-utils

[Julien Fischer]

Hi Wilfred,

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 at 14:17, Wilfred Thompson <sw.issues at atomicmail.io> wrote:
>
> A Linux kernel project called mmc-utils conflicts with two Mercury files. Here is the project page.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mmc/mmc-utils.git/
>
> Below are the conflicting files, on Void Linux in my case but probably any distro using default build params. Mercury's mmc is a very short script so I recommend renaming it.
>
> /usr/bin/mmc
> /usr/share/man/man1/mmc.1

Mercury's mmc script already has an installed alternative named
mercury. There's no alternative for
the manual page, but we can probably provide one.  Renaming mmc is not
viable at this point, it's
been the compiler's name for over thirty years.

Julien.




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