Re: An alternatives question

1998-04-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 11:01:30AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > X11R6.4 has been released. You need to pay $$$ to get hold of > it, as far as I can see. For the free software community X is > moribund, and it is time to move on. (What to, I wonder?) Wasn't Berlin intended to be an X-su

Re: An alternatives question

1998-04-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 09:22:29AM -0500, Brian Mays wrote: > Where should the links in /etc/alternatives point for X applications? > Should they point to /usr/bin/X11/app-name or /usr/X11R6/bin/app-name? > I can find nothing in Debian's policy manual that addresses this issue, > and there currentl

Re: An alternatives question

1998-04-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, X11R6.4 has been released. You need to pay $$$ to get hold of it, as far as I can see. For the free software community X is moribund, and it is time to move on. (What to, I wonder?) manoj -- "Science is about skepticism." -- Eugene Miya Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: An alternatives question

1998-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 09:22:29AM -0500, Brian Mays wrote: > It is my opinion that the alternatives link should be through > /usr/bin/X11; otherwise when X is upgraded to X11R7, all of the > alternatives will break. However, I would like to hear what others think. There may never be an X11R7, b

An alternatives question

1998-04-01 Thread Brian Mays
Where should the links in /etc/alternatives point for X applications? Should they point to /usr/bin/X11/app-name or /usr/X11R6/bin/app-name? I can find nothing in Debian's policy manual that addresses this issue, and there currently are at least two open bug reports (20407 and 20409) on this. It i