forcemerge 323009 444341 thanks Hi,
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 21:55:01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.13.25 > > There seems to me to be a gaping hole in the update-alternatives program > in that there's all this talk about generic names but no mention of what > they actually are, so it is hard to use the program. > The only way it seems to me to find them is to use 'ls /etc/alternatives'. > For now, the man and info pages should at least advise using 'ls > /etc/alternatives'; better still would be to list the generic names in the > man and info pages. The generic names are not predefined, so I don't think that listing them in the man page is a possibility. > In the longer, term a switch to list the generic names would be great. I guess the requested --list-all would accomplish that, so merging the bug reports. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
