Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Tue Feb 15 22:06:14 -0500 2011: > They are not particularly work-alikes. They just share the same > name. I think "alternatives" is best used when there is a very high > degree of functional similarity.
Fair enough. It was just a thought. On other systems, this type of 'provides similar functionality' (as opposed to 'provides similar or extended interface' [ala sendmail, sudo*, etc]) use is offered. Example from Debian/Ubuntu: $ ls -l /usr/bin/editor /etc/alternatives/editor lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-01-07 03:50 /usr/bin/editor -> /etc/alternatives/editor lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-01-07 03:50 /etc/alternatives/editor -> /bin/nano If the binaries are to be renamed then I think matching the man page with the binary name makes the most sense. Thanks -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. ::.
