On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Then how will humans specify what they want? >> >> User, non-maintainer humans? They will use rm and ln to make >> different symlinks in /etc/opt/csw/alternatives. >> > > ick. that's rather user-unfriendly.
On the contrary, this is exactly why it's user friendly. You don't have to know about update-alternatives command line to manage your alternatives. If you want to change which sudo to use, you can go /etc/opt/csw/alternatives, replace existing symlink with the one you want and be done with it. The next time you upgrade sudo or sudo_ldap, update-alternatives will notice that the symlink has been changed, and it won't touch it. It's similar to the way we currently handle configuration files. Of course, nothing prevents humans from using the update-alternatives command line. If someone wants to type less, they should be intelligent enough to use the power of alias. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
