On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:21:46AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Your nano package contains a file /usr/bin/pico which is a link > to /usr/bin/nano. > The existance of this file makes it impossible for Debian users to > install the "original" pico from external sources and open it with the > original command "pico" if they want to. > > Since nano is not pico, but provides an alternative to it, I would > appreciate, if you use Debian's alternatives system to > link /usr/bin/pico to /usr/bin/nano. Users who want to build packages > for the original pico then can choose to link /usr/bin/pico > to /usr/bin/pico-nonfree or similar.
As far as I know, the official pico Debian package from UW does a divert of the symlink, so everything should work as expected. If they have changed this in recent releases, I don't know. Are you installing the Debian package? Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/
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