On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 7:24 PM Peter Boy <p...@uni-bremen.de> wrote: > > > > > Am 30.01.2021 um 17:45 schrieb Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>: > > > > On 30.01.2021 16:58, Peter Boy wrote: > >> But it’s perfectly usable for Fedora Workstation or Server and almost > >> indispensable for some development projects, e.g. Java (and vi/vim for a > >> terminal environment). Why should alternatives not be usable there? Or > >> what is a suitable and adequate replacement? > > > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Alternatives/ > > Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I don’t see a connection to immutable > Fedora (it is about drop-in, user configurable, etc). Or do I miss something?
If you read the Packaging Guidelines, they actually explicitly mention that vi / vim are a bad example for using the alternatives system - because they're not drop-in replacements. Additionally, as far as I know, OSTree based Fedora variants do not execute any RPM scriptlets, but implement their own handling of e.g. ldconfig and such things. And alternatives is definitely not compatible with OSTree - according to these bug reports, at least Java alternatives are broken - apparently primarily because OSTree stores configuration in /var instead of /etc: - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1657367 - https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/1614 Fabio _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
