On 02-Sep-99 Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wednesday 1 September 1999, at 10 h 56, the keyboard of "Sean 'Shaleh' > Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > No, with Debian's diversions, it is very easy. >> > >> >> Diversions are pure evil. > > Could you elaborate? I find them very useful and well-done, and I will > certainly not be convinced by name-calling like that. >
My problem is the diversion mechanism and the fact that few people understand it. Add to that the fact of update being the app diverted and I become a tad concerned. Also, diversions only work on single files. Not symlinks, not directories. So they are not a solution for everything.
