On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Wichmann, Mats D <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Kok, Auke-jan H <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> > can you use the alternatives system for this? >> > >> >> With chkconfig removed from Trunk/Trunk:Testing, update-alternatives >> is also gone. > > yeah, Anas' comment made that clear. In concept anyway, alternatives is > designed for this kind of problem where multiple pkgs may install something > similar, and you also want to have an install-order-independent way (via > priorities) > of selecting a preferred one from a set of choices you may not know about > up front. that's why I thought of it. but if it's gone it's gone (note > they're not really > directly tied together, chkconfig and alternatives, although I realize > Fedora > packages it that way because they have a way for alternatives to also invoke > chkconfig in a particular case).
The bottom line is, that, if you follow my previous explanation to Anas, any such mechanism that specifies a "priority" would be the absolute biggest disaster we could potentially create here. A Huge mistake. I wrote the whole mechanism in such a way that the user can never ever suddenly have his desktop changed. The update-alternatives system is exactly designed to do that: change the default choice for something automatically. Auke _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
