On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:00:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

> 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*.

I know.

Rename what I suggested to

        /etc/conflicts/

and you'd be set.

(Personally, I don't endorse the idea of allowing any
conflicts anyways but apparently people asked for the
ability to introduce configurable conflicts :-)

Karsten
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