James Sparenberg wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:52:00AM -0700 : > Don't know if this will help or not. /usr/bin/gcc is a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/gcc which in my case is a symlink to /usr/bin/colorgcc > (don't ask be why it couldn't do it in one step... I don't know.)
Because update-alternatives just manages the symlinks from
/etc/alternatives to the real binary that they point to. It's the job
of the system to put the appropriate link from the system binary to the
/etc/alternatives/* symlinks. Otherwise, update-alternatives would have
to know about every different possible place to look for those symlinks,
a formidable task considering that it can be used for more than just
binaries.
Blue skies... Todd
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