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From: Michael Kohl <citizen428@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling multiple packages providing the same convenience symlink
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:07:45
Message-Id: 20041104170709.4ae71927@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Handling multiple packages providing the same convenience symlink by Ciaran McCreesh
1 [Should have gone to the list, sorry ciaranm.]
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3 On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:45:39 +0000
4 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote:
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6 > One way to go about it would be to introduce blocks. This is pretty
7 > stupid though -- the only conflict is a measly symlink. So... Some
8 > genius please provide a suggested way to handle this kind of situation
9 > that doesn't involve any of the following:
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11 Ok, this may be a really stupid idea, but maybe you could introduce a
12 vi-config similar to gcc-config and the like? Using this you'd specify a
13 standard vi compatible editor, which gets the symlinks, whereas the
14 others have be invoked with their respective names.
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17 Michael Kohl <citizen428@g.o>
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