On Thu 2019-01-10 21:48:22 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2019-01-10 at 15:53 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> what's the advantage of using alternatives instead of a package- >> specific displacement? > > None really, as long as you put it in a separate p11-kit-trust package > as Fedora/RHEL do. > > You don't want installation of the p11-kit package itself to trigger > the replacement, necessarily. Lots of other things use p11-kit.
yes, agreed, it would be a separate and distinct binary package, not p11-kit on its own. --dkg