"janjansenbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you explain how update-alternatives works in practice ?
The manual page update-alternatives(8) does a pretty good job, but the short and curly of it is: update-alternatives maintains a bunch of symlinks for things like gcc, vi, and other applications where Debian ships a bunch of alternative implementation of the same thing. You can maintain these links by hand, and update-alternatives will respect that, but the real advantage is that using update-alternatives will do sensible things when packages are removed, can show all the choices for a package available, and so forth. To configure something, run as root: ] update-alternatives --config <name> Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
