Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.29 Followup-For: Bug #77828 I quite shocked to learn that this was filed 10 years ago and realized that at least two people have offered solutions to this problem.
Apparently this is a very common problem I've had with debian for a longtime and am sure many other people do to.. Thing is this-> By default ~/bin is not enabled for $PATH for normal users.. The epiphany browser cannot be changed graphically. <<< extremely irritating..as the only place to change it is in console (did the ~/bin in $PATH for ~/.profile and made a symlinkn ~/bin/epiphany-browser to point to my preferred browser) Those apps that call the epiphany-browser symlink like gambas(from the help menu item) ought to know better..so that's why i'm filing a bug to gambas package as well.. I'm sure gambas isn't the only package using the alternatives symlink and $PATH.. and choosing 'Preferred Applications'(gnome-- to change the user's default webbrowser), has absolutely no effect.. (perhaps X packages should be enforced not to use the alternatives symlinks) The rest of the alternatives is console commands and pose no problems(obviously anyone who uses console knows he can override /etc/alternatives with ~/bin symlinks), but something should definitely be changed so that the epiphany-browser be globally changed from the GUI.. (I believe relying on /etc/alternatives and using ~/bin for GUI apps is not intuitive at all and very confusing providing there's 'Preferred Applications' to look into) Thanks for any feedback, greatly appreciate it.. again I understand the unnecessity of ~/myalternatives, but the epiphany-browser should at least be changeable from the user's GUI perspective much more easily.. (I occasionaly like to use the same webbrowser for bookmarking dochelp pages and can't live without thanks) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.20.2+lenny2 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
