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 > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx