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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Subject: Re: Handling multiple packages providing the same convenience symlink
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:14:06 +0000
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:08:55 -0500 Olivier CrĂȘte <tester@g.o>
wrote:
| There is a tool exactly like eselect that already exists... Its called
| alternatives and its comes with dpkg.. It might be a good idea to just
| use it... instead of re-inventing the wheel..

Does alternatives really do exactly what we want? And can we hook it
into the ebuild process? From what I remember of how it works, we'd have
to adapt it a fair bit for Gentoo anyway.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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