On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:06:57AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > [email protected] said: > > The above will add "emacs" into the list of available alternatives > > for "editor". By what divers black majik a particular application > > is chosen I'm not sure. > > Despite the claim at the top of --display's output, "auto" appears to > be an action rather than a state. When you execute > `update-alternatives --auto <name>`, the highest priority option is > assigned to the link (in the case of a tie, the first item listed with > the highest priority is chosen, IIRC). > > However, this automatic selection can be overridden with > `update-alternatives --config <name>` to force a specific option - yet > it continues to claim "status is auto." > > > ...what is the "correct" way to have "wmaker" be "Current 'best' > > version"? > > The easy way would be > > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > and select wmaker from the list to be your default.
For those who are interested, the following script (run in
/etc/alternatives) will list all manually configured alternative links:
#!/bin/bash
cd /etc/alternatives
for file in *;
do
if update-alternatives --display $file | grep manual 1>/dev/null
then update-alternatives --display $file; echo
fi
done
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