On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:56:56PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> writes: > > In my opinion, we should just rename mailwrapper to whateverwrapper > > and list the lpr programs in there as well. > > Take a look at /etc/alternatives in any Debian-based Linux distro...
Yeah, that's actually something I've long wondered about implementing; shouldn't be too hard, really. Never found the tuits, though :) For those who don't know what the idea is: /usr/bin/ftp is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/ftp, which in its turn is a symlink to /usr/bin/tnftp. The /etc/alternatives/ links are maintained by the update-alternatives utility which knows about priorities, defaults, slave symlinks (e.g. if the ftp(1) utility's symlink changes, it would be best to also change the ftp.1.gz manpage symlink, wouldn't it?), and a whole lot more. From a user's standpoint, all you have to do is install a package that declares a higher-priority alternative, and update-alternatives switches the symlink behind the scenes (unless you have explicitly specified one of the choices). If you don't like that, run update-alternatives by hand, and your choice is honored even if later a package with an even higher priority is installed. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bg r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Hey, out there - is it *you* reading me, or is it someone else?
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