Re: [devel] Kalternatives 0.5

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:28:40PM +0100, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2004 11:21 schrieb Juanjo Alvarez:
> 
> Now it works on my system. I think it is a little hard to grasp the GUI. Is 
> there no way to get an explanation on the alternatives? How would I know what 
> to choose? :-) I guess this is an inherent limitation of the debian 
> alternatives system??

This tool is mostly for sysadmins; final users are not expected to
change alternatives (that's the job of a script or another higher level
user tool). Anyway I also tought about that problem, one solution would
be to find to which package every alternative belongs (with dpkg
- -S and a cache because dpkg -S is very slow, or is there a better way to
know what package a file belongs to?) and displaying them as tooltips.

> Also I think it should be a kcm module with the option to become root, but I 
> think this is planned anyways, isn't it?

Yes, it is.
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