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From: "Olivier Crête" <tester@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 16:41:46
Message-Id: 1099586503.13271.1.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling multiple packages providing the same convenience symlink by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 2004-04-11 at 16:09 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:01:43 +0000 Chris Bainbridge
3 > <chris.bainbridge@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > | Isn't this the same problem as gcc, java interpreters, etc all wanting
5 > | to install binaries called 'gcc' and 'java', so we have gcc-config and
6 > | java-config which allows the user to insert the 'gcc' and 'java'
7 > | symbols into their executable namespace?
8 >
9 > Pretty much, yeah. On the other hand, having a vi-config would be really
10 > really stupid. I really don't want to go down that road if there's any
11 > way to avoid it...
12
13 Can't we just have a generic system like debian's alternatives instead
14 of creating a new -config tool for every package?
15
16 --
17 Olivier Crête
18 tester@g.o
19 Gentoo Developer

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