We gotta get you on the Fink team, Anthony... you understand the Debian
tools better than we do!

So how does Debian handle the situation where two different pacakges want
to provide executables and/or man pages with the same name?

  -- Dave

> Noooooo! That's not what alternatives is for. Its for two packages that
> provide the same (or nearly the same) functionality. For example, two
> implementations of awk (on Debian, we have gawk and mawk, for example).
> We also have things like "editor" and "x-terminal-emulator"
> 
> This sounds like two completely different programs, so they are not
> alternatives.


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