On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:13:10PM -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote: > > > > Hmm, sounds familiar... oh, right, the alternatives man page. > > It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar > functions to be installed on a single system at the same time. For > example, many systems have several text editors installed at once. > This gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use a dif- > ferent editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program to make > a good choice of editor to invoke if the user has not specified a par- > ticular preference. > > The alternatives system aims to solve this problem. Not really. The alternatives system is useful if * the different applications have compatible command line options * the setting makes sense as a system-wide setting, not as a user setting. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
