Am 2010-08-09 17:58:17, schrieb Yury V. Zaytsev: > It seems that I have found the reason. mc does not know that it should > launch mcedit when evoked as /usr/bin/editor.
Why does it not know?
The EXEC command in the Source should execute even a symlink.
> I think that probably a Debian-specific patch is better than installing
> piles of problematic wrapper junk.
I agree with this.
> Only downside is that this change
> will mess up already set-up alternatives.
>
> Probably this is not too much of an issue as the sysadmin will notice it
> anyway during the update process.
Of course..
However, since dist-upgrades over two versions is not supported by
Debian, you could include a small code into "mc.postinst" which check
for old stuff laying around before it call "update-alternatives"...
So, even Sysadmins have not to care about it.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
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