Re: [OT] Scripts, packages, etc.

Gerrit Pape (Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:25:12PM +0200):
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:44:03AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Yes, allowing simultaneous installs of multiple versions, and using
> > links to pick the default one, is a great feature of /package.
> > 
> > Debian (and to a lesser extent Red Hat) does this, too; in those
> > systems, the links are in /etc/alternatives rather than /package, but
> > it's the same idea.
> 
> They don't serve the same purpose:
> /etc/alternative-links allow different versions of a program from
> different packages (e.g.: pager -> less, pager -> more).  /package-links
> allow different versions of the same package.

But it's easy to create a package foo/pager such that a system, host,
or user level mapping is used to exec pager into less or more.

Regards,
-- 
Stefan