On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:11:31 Joe Riel wrote: > Why are there no alternatives, configurable with update-alternatives, > for gcc? Seems like I should be able to configure whether /usr/bin/gcc > is linked to gcc-4.3, gcc-4.4, etc. Of course I can just set the link > manually (which I do), but ...
Can't you set up new alterantives within the update-alternatives mechanism? I have never done this, but it was one of the options I was considering a while ago to control which version of an app was the default -- as it turned out, I was able to use the "stow" mechanism to good effect, because it was a non-packaged app, so I only got as far as reading the update-alterantives documentation. The man-page says that the "--install" option sets up a new batch of alternatives. I don't know if this will interact constructively with the package manager. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102012101.13639.rei...@bellatlantic.net