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

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On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 19:48, Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 7:24 PM Peter Boy <pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Am 30.01.2021 um 17:45 schrieb Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > >
> > > On 30.01.2021 16:58, Peter Boy wrote:
> > >> But it’s perfectly usable for Fedora Workstation or Server and almost indispensable for some development projects, e.g. Java (and vi/vim for a terminal environment). Why should alternatives not be usable there?  Or what is a suitable  and adequate replacement?
> > >
> > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Alternatives/
> >
> > Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I don’t see a connection to immutable Fedora (it is about drop-in, user configurable, etc). Or do I miss something?
>
> If you read the Packaging Guidelines, they actually explicitly mention
> that vi / vim are a bad example for using the alternatives system -
> because they're not drop-in replacements.
>
> Additionally, as far as I know, OSTree based Fedora variants do not
> execute any RPM scriptlets, but implement their own handling of e.g.
> ldconfig and such things.
> And alternatives is definitely not compatible with OSTree - according
> to these bug reports, at least Java alternatives are broken -
> apparently primarily because OSTree stores configuration in /var
> instead of /etc:

I think you meant: "...because alternatives stores configuration in
/var instead of /etc"

>
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1657367
> - https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/1614
>
>
> Fabio
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