Hi, On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > It confuses users... it's cruft, it's not clean. > > How does it confuse users?
They see files which in reality do not exist. > > I say we're far from having it solved at a higher level, "declarative > > diversions" are the subject of a GSoC but there's no plan currently to do > > something similar with the alternatives. > > How far is far? > > To me, it sounds almost trivial. Patches welcome if you think so. We have made progress when we switched update-alternatives to C... it's now at least possible to reuse some of the code within dpkg but it's definitely not trivial. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
