On 03 May 2005, at 18:32, Daniel Macks wrote:
Looks perfect to me (cf below nevertheless)."update-alternatives" is a clean way of accomplishing this kind of game. Give fink itself %p/bin/perl->/usr/bin/perl with a low priority and then each perlXXX a %p/bin/perl->perlXXX with a higher priority (and remove the actual %p/bin/perl from that pkg).
If users actually ever became comfortable with update-alternatives, we could maybe even use it in perlXXX-core to supply all the stuff currently in perlXXX and nuke that latter package entirely.
Only difference: dpkg doesn't know in the dep engine where your alternaives point.
If we want to reserve the possibility for certain packages to depend on the fact
some symlink points to one rather than another target, such symlinks have
to be installed by pkgs...
JF
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