* on Sunday, 2019-10-20 14:24 +1000, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote:
> That is on the cards. I had the example of the lua include directory > in the first email, but did not explicitly specify that we could symlink > directories as well as files. Alternatives management via "dynamic modification of a user's environment" has been popular in HPC for decades, e.g. see [1]. In particular, being able to use different alternatives in separate environments is very useful. (This does not preclude setting user-wide or all-user-wide defaults.) It may be helpful to consider separately feature-rich, flexible, dynamic alternatives management for a user's convenience on one hand, versus functionality that is essential for the system to work properly on the other. Package dependencies probably fall under the latter category, as well as sh->bash/dash awk->gawk/nawk cc/clang, whereas lua->lua51/lua52/lua53 or java->java-8-openjdk/... fall under the second, I guess... Best, Daan P.S. I hope this is contribution is constructive, but please let me know if it isn't! 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_Modules_(software)
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