Re: Using alternatives

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Patrice Dumas (pertusus@xxxxxxx) said: 
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:51:32PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > While reviewing a package, I stumbled across the use of alternatives
> > and found out it's not regulated in any way in Fedora. So far, I've
> > encountered three ways of handling the symlinks that are set up using
> > alternatives:
> > 1. some packages have Provides: for them (like cups or postfix),
> 
> Not all files are provided, only 
> /usr/bin/mailq  
> /usr/bin/newaliases  
> /usr/bin/rmail  
> /usr/sbin/sendmail  
> while man pages are not provided. I think it is right like this.

Files have to be 'provided' so things that depend on them can work.
Hopefully nothing depends on man pages.

Bill

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