Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
2005/8/26, Marcel Gschwandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 11:50 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
I think that * update-alternatives is a good facility
It isn't, really.
IMHO it is.
The alternatives system would be even better if it wasn't half broken. I
mean, why does it leave all kinds of obsolete, broken symlinks around?
There have also been times when the alternatives system was out of sync
with reality thinking that a symlink pointed to one choice when it in
fact pointed to another. Upon reselecting the correct choice nothing was
fixed because it does nothing if you don't "change" your choice. I ended
up replacing the symlink manually. Even if these issues are the fault of
broken maintainer scripts or something similar, the system should have
more tolerance when things go wrong.
Michael Spang
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