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Package: base
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Please add a "more" alternative. I don't know how this works given
that the potential alternatives (less, most, presumably one or two
others, and perhaps some users would like to use an editor, e.g. view,
rather than a pager) are in /usr/bin while more is in /bin; perhaps if
some alternative other than more is selected, then the link can be to
/usr/bin/more, so that if /usr isn't mounted, /bin/more is still
available as normal?
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Hi, Reuben!
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> Please add a "more" alternative. I don't know how this works given
> that the potential alternatives (less, most, presumably one or two
> others, and perhaps some users would like to use an editor, e.g. view,
> rather than a pager) are in /usr/bin while more is in /bin; perhaps if
> some alternative other than more is selected, then the link can be to
> /usr/bin/more, so that if /usr isn't mounted, /bin/more is still
> available as normal?
In Debian, we use /usr/bin/sensible-pager that provides the
functionality you are requesting. Please see the manpage for more info
on how to configure this behaviour, but it doesn't belong to
alternatives, it is more of a environment variable issue.
If you really want a more alternative, feel free submit a bug against
the package debianutils, that implements this feature. Discussion in the
debian-devel mailing list is also appropiate, but I guess there's little
chance to change this.
Thanks!
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