James Griffin wrote: > I believe Fedora/Redhat systems have a similar way of selecting > which package/program should be your default using an > "alternatives-type" command. Useful for Linux users.
At the risk of drifting too far from topic, yes, Red Hat / Fedora does have alternatives. It appears to me to be a port-then-rewrite of the Debian tool. But they use it for completely different purposes. They use it to control the choice of MTA and a few other high level system choices. On Debian only one of Postfix, Exim, Sendmail would be installed at a time so no chooser is needed between them to arbitrate who gets /usr/sbin/sendmail. It is whichever one is installed. But on Fedora/RH both Postfix and Sendmail are both typically installed at the same time. They use the alternatives to select which one is active gets control of /usr/sbin/sendmail (using the "mta" tag). (And along with chkconfig to determine which one starts and gets port 25.) AFAICS on Fedora/RH the alternatives system isn't used for user seen behavior such as /usr/bin/mutt selection and is pretty sparingly used in general. Bob
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