On Sat, Oct 25, 2025, at 2:15 PM, Markus Meissner wrote: > Hi, > > wouldn't this be a perfect use case for update-alternatives? I use > > `update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/fd fd /usr/bin/fdfind 10 > ` > on my machines in order to use `fd`. As far as I can tell, it should be > relatively easy to implement: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/nano/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/nano-tiny.postinst > > It would be really great if you could implement it.
alternatives is for multiple packages providing the same interface, which is not the case here. what we could do is ship a second package that conflicts with fdclone, and just contains a symlink making `fdfind` available as `fd`?
