I understand the purpose of update-alternatives, but read further where I display my ignorance. The only way I can use it is:
update-alternatives --all This results in cycling thru a long list of questions about various selections which I have no interest in changing, hoping that I will spot, from very sparse information, the question for which I do need to make a change. It is tedious, and prone to error. I gather from the man page that each question refers to a 'link group'. If this is incorrect, please substitute the correct word(s) wherever I use 'link group' below. I can't find a way to simply list the link groups, or a way to learn what packages actually use/set which each link group. I think it would be nice if there were a man page that listed each link group with a synopsis of what it does, and what packages are sensitive to, or modify its setting. Which packages do not use update-alternatives? I'd like to know so that I know not to look to update-alternatives for a fix for behavior that I don't like. There seems to be a lot of redundancy in the names of link groups. Can any package maintainer create his own link group(s) for user selections within his package? Or is there some over-riding policy? Is there an "Update-alternatives HOWTO"? Why are there so many link groups for which there is only one option? Why do I have to see those when I am looking to undo some change in behavior that I attribute to having recently installed a package that is new to be? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
