Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Oct 04 16:32:48 -0400 2010: > register with CSWalternatives: > Good, because it then becomes easy to figure out if a link was > created by our alternatives, > vs done by hand or something.
What repercussions would this have across an update of CSWalternatives itself? Are these links registered in such a fashion that when they're removed during an upgrade they'd be reinstated correctly afterwards? > register with CSWxyz > Good, because if it points to a particular implementation for the > symlink, then when > that package is removed, the symlink will automatically get removed. > But then again, it should automatically get removed by class action > script anyway, so... > are there any other benefits this way? I don't care for this as much as placing the ownership with alternatives itself. The only real benefit I see is the one you've noted already. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
