On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:09:42AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> I don't see how anything but xterm is supposed to change this situation. >> AFAIK no package "owns" an alternative per se, but I might be wrong here; >> my understanding of this was that by default, whatever alternative has the >> highest priority is selected as the alternative in use. > I would regard that as a defect in the alternatives scheme, since package > maintainers can otherwise choose to set arbitrary priorities for their > favorite packages (and doing so late in the release cycle leads to > competitive issues).
You could of course view that as a problem, but it's completely irrelevant here, as xterm's postinst sets the priority for both xterm and uxterm, and it's the relative priorities of those two I want to swap. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
