On Sun February 27 2022 23:58:05 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > It would. But the "alternatives" system imposed by deian does not work as > the package system. In packages you cannot have 2 or more binaries of the > same name in the same place and a random procedure decides what binary you > want to use. The "alternatives" does exactly this: by some random order one > of several binaries that are supposed to do the same thing are linked to > /etc/alternatives". What could possibly go wrong with that? Just try "man > open": When you have xdg-utils installed, it giver the manpage of > "xdg-open". When you have xdg-utils not installed, it gives the manpage of > "open". How cool is that! Maybe "man update-alternatives" would help? --Mike ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
