Gdu conflicts with coreutils

[dundee]

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Description of issue

Hello community,
I am the maintainer of gdu. The current formulae has a conflict with coreutils, which was reported by the users of gdu.

The current installation instructions work well:

brew install coreutils
brew install --force gdu
brew link --overwrite gdu

but the upgrade fails then.

Is there some recommended approach how to solve such situations?

My ideas:

• change the name of the binary to smth like gdu-compat
• introduce new formulare, e.g. gdu-compat

[carlocab]

Users can brew unlink coreutils for gdu upgrades or brew unlink gdu for coreutils updates. They can do brew link --overwrite after that to restore the symlinks.

It's admittedly not a great UX, but we don't really have a nice way to handle these at the moment. The simplest thing to do may be to rename the binary to something like go-gdu, or gdu-go.

[dundee]

I will rename the binary. Thanks!

[dundee]

Homebrew/homebrew-core#134668