Re: [Help wanted] Setting vi/view/vim via alternatives

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On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 16:08, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 29.01.2021 09:49, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> > I'm currently trying to rewrite the current shell aliases for making
> > Vi/View/Vim use the correct compiled binary based on which Vim package
> > is installed.
>
> Alternatives are not suitable for Fedora, because they will break
> immutable Fedora releases due to scriptlets usage.

Hey, what do you mean by this?

Why should scriplets usage be incompatible with immutable Fedora
releases? I guess thousands
of rpms use some kind of scriplets in spec?

Otherwise, alternatives subcommands alter stuff under
`/etc/alternatives` and `/var/lib/alternatives`.

Both places should be writable on immutable releases.

>
> --
> Sincerely,
>    Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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