> We’re just talking about clearly expressing the fact that Debian prefers free > alternatives and making sure that the user is aware of licensing issues with > dynamic linking.
In that case maybe the best solution would be to use debconf in order to: - display a warning about the GPL-2 incompatibility (or just display the mkl license) - ask the user if he wants to make mkl the current alternative. Is there a debconf backend for alternatives ? Cheers