Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling multiple packages providing the same convenience symlink

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 14:08:55 -0500 Olivier Crête <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.

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