Am 01.04.19 um 06:57 schrieb Allan McRae: > On 1/4/19 2:12 pm, Andrew Gregory wrote: >> On 04/01/19 at 09:56am, Allan McRae wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I plan to finish implementing an alternatives system for pacman post 5.2 >>> release: >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Alternatives >>> >>> Any comments or suggestions? >> >> "All alternatives are symlinked in /usr/bin so no need to specify the >> full path." >> >> Why? Arch puts all executables in /usr/bin but other users may not. > > Make the path configurable, if anyone ever asks for that. Or if they > want a range of locations, extend it to allow optional full paths. And > this will have some configurability with the --prefix or --bindir > configuration options (at least in autotools). >
I do think there could be use cases for alternatives outside /usr/bin: What if someone wanted to use an alternative for something else than a executable? For example something like /usr/lib/jvm/default comes to mind. So using alternatives couldn't selecting a default java be handled by pacman alone, instead of needing a helper like archlinux-java? (Or does that helper do anything, alternatives couldn't handle?) -- regards, brainpower
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