tags 77828 - patch
tags 77828 + wontfix
thanks
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Martin Quinson wrote:
> Here is an (unified) patch against update-alternatives.pl as found today in
> the CVS. Its purpose is to allow the users to manage an "alternative" system
> on their account.
I'm not really inclined to support such a feature. I have yet to see a
valid use case.
When the user wants to override a system-wide setting, there are already
dozens of solutions going from using some environment variable to
changing the PATH so that ~/bin/ is looked first. And ~/bin/ can contain
symlinks corresponding to the various name of alternatives and have them
point to their program of choice.
Cheers,
--
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