On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 12:39, Nye Liu <n...@nyet.org> wrote: > On 8/29/2019 8:08 AM, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > >> That definitely does not provide update-alternatives functionality. > >> > > We don't provide update-alternatives for difference versions. This is > > not the goal of update-alternatives. > that is ABSOLUTELY one of the roles of update-alternatives, particularly > for compiler variants, e.g. gcc, java, etc. >
gcc isn't managed by alternatives though! In general, alternatives are not a great fit for toolchains, because they mess up the ability for version constraints in build-depends to be useful and mean the package versions reported in build logs / .buildinfo files can't be relied on. I'm not going to budge on this one, sorry. Cheers, mwh
