On 2011-07-11 18:26, Russ Allbery wrote: > Combining configuration files with slave alternatives makes me nervous. > I'm not sure what would happen if the system administrator broke the > symlink (via an editor action, for example) while the alternatives system > still thinks that it's active; we might end up confusing the alternatives > database.
Replacing the link with a file is save (at first): update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf with a link but unfortunately switching to an alternative that does not have this slave causes update-alternatives to delete the file. I'm going to check tonight whether this is a regression from the dpkg in lenny. Replacing the link with a different link would probably be ignored by the alternatives system, e.g. the custom link would be replaced by the alternative link on next update. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e1b32fd.9010...@abeckmann.de
