-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: > Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote: >> We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be >> used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it >> useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain >> similar symbol links in `~/bin' or something like `~/bin/alternatives'? >> Or does that already exist? I personally think it can be useful, because >> I currently do that manually. > > I'm sorry I don't know the answer to whether something like this exists > already, but I've gotta say I wondered the exact same thing yesterday, > when I changed my default x-www-browser from konqueror to firefox. > > I second that this would be interesting. >
I set that mainly for Java related commands such as `java' and `javac'. I have to set that to point to sun's executables for one account. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGKaVyCIqXQV6BF28RAui2AKC4W0TcALJo5fHhayr5tBcrAUvM4wCffm0I 8EHJsEvUrakMOTpV5ql8bHM= =/6jF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
