On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > Ok then, so you say identical prios are an error. That means > sendmail would get 100 and postfix 200 (or vice versay, doesn't > matter for the moment). User installs sendmail and configures it. > Than much later postfix is installed and everything breaks. > Does this sound better to you than my proposal?
Thank you for bringing up that example. We should definitely augment our documentation to cover it. I have two comments. #1: What you describe is, unfortunately, an example of another way to incorrectly implement 'alternatives' in a package. A package should not trigger 'alternatives', until what is referenced, is actually functional. We should document use of 'alternatives' to be clear about this. #2: here's the biggest thing: . If you dont like the fact that the user will automatically get a different implementation inserted underneath things, when they install a higher priority implementation, I can understand that. But ***this is exactly how they (LINUX alternatives) were designed to work***! So if you dont like the way that feels as a user, then please make a formal proposal suggesting we stop trying to emulate "linux alternatives", and start using "Dagobert's Special Program Switcher(tm)" instead :-D _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
