On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Let's assume a conflict on the name popt from packages A and B.
>
> Here is what I would do:
>
> /usr/bin/popt.A
> /usr/bin/popt.B
>
> /usr/bin/popt -> /etc/alternatives/popt
>
> /etc/alternatives/popt -> /usr/bin/popt.A or /usr/bin/popt.B
This would mean a misuse of the alternatives system. Alternatives is
not intended to work around name spacing conflicts but rather to provide
a generic interface to packages which are providing the same
*functionality*. In this thread we were discussing programms with
totally different functionality which must not be handled by
alternatives.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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