On 23/12/2023 14:34, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
On 22/12/23 00:40, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
If you're asking about using /etc/alternatives or something like that to
provide some sort of generic swapping capability, or a dpkg Provides:,
such that /usr/bin/gpg on some systems would point toward the
"chameleon", i would want to see some significant archive-wide testing
done before we even consider inflicting that on our normal users.
While we are on the topic of alternatives, I hope to see the
maintscript-based /etc/alternatives paradigm deprecated in favor of
the package-based X-is-X paradigm introduced by `python-is-python3`.
They have different use-cases. alternatives allows for
co-installability (and importantly - co-"buildability" with
dependencies). the X-is-X guarantees essentially the opposite.
This becomes key if we have two different approaches desired or needed
simultaneously: eg the adios parallel I/O library builds for both
openmpi and mpich variants of MPI; different variants preferred for
different architectures.
Regards
Alastair McKinstry
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