On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:18, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Well, the existing means to handle simultaneous installs of otherwise > mutually exclusive packages is the > alternatives mechanism used to handle sendmail vs. postfix and lpd vs. cups. > > Yes, symlinks, feeble, but that is the existing mechanism, might as well > use if in the distro. Can you elaborate on how this works presently? How do you avoid conflicts among multiple packages owning those symlinks? -- Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> National Security Agency
