Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
This seems a little...er...specific. Maybe that's ok I guess, but it feels wrong somehow. If this is an ability that people find themselves wanting, maybe we should generalize it?
Yeah, couldn't really think of a way to do so that didn't look goofy...
We could have a Executables: option that lists name:path pairs, and could eventually let users specify alternatives for anything. Or a exec-prefix dir where users could just drop symlinks to executables they'd prefer Fink would use. Or maybe Fink should even put the Fink paths at the *end* of PATH instead of the beginning, so it uses whatever the user has in his|her path (at the risk of choosing something bad).
I'm not such a big fan of the "magic path" idea of symlinks, we already have enough uncertainty in what is ending up in the user's path, I'd rather when we get a bug report from a user, it's obvious that it's calling /sw/bin/pbzip2 rather than just 'bzip2' that happens to point to a symlink without us knowing it...
Opinions, anyone?
Honestly, I was originally just going to make the bzip2 bit use pbzip2 if it exists, but figured that was forcing the user into something that's still technically beta code, so I thought I'd make it configurable.
I don't really like the specificity either, but couldn't think of a better way to do it, although I suppose we could do something like this if it really needs to be generalized:
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