On Saturday 16 January 2010, Till Maas wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:14:53AM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > On Friday 15 January 2010, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > Alternatives is system wide, but it can be per application. > > > > Per application alternatives, as in alternatives(8)? How? > > If two versions of each application with different shebangs are > installed: [...] Ah, I see, the apps themselves would be managed using alternatives, not python 2 and 3. But what's the benefit of alternatives for this? Is the intent to provide sysadmins a way to change which python version of an app would be the system default? If not, why not just pick what we want to be the default for each app, and use a plain old symlink in packages to point to it? Changing what we want to be the default would require package updates anyway, and it seems to me that alternatives just complicates things and provides people a way to shoot themselves in the foot, e.g prevent that default change from happening when that package update lands (in addition to changing it at will without any package updates in question) which might not be a good thing. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
