At least Debian and Redhat (8,9, Fedora) have the alternatives (man 8 alternatives) system. It essentially contains a list of packages that provide the same facility (like Sendmail and Postfix on Redhat) and links that need to be shuffled around to switch from one to the other. For example, on my machine
# alternatives --display mta mta - status is manual. link currently points to /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail - priority 90 slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.sendmail slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.sendmail slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.sendmail.1.gz slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.sendmail.1.gz slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.sendmail.5.gz /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix - priority 30 slave mta-mailq: /usr/bin/mailq.postfix slave mta-newaliases: /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix slave mta-rmail: /usr/bin/rmail.postfix slave mta-mailqman: /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.postfix.1.gz slave mta-newaliasesman: /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.postfix.1.gz slave mta-aliasesman: /usr/share/man/man5/aliases.postfix.5.gz Current `best' version is /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail.
It should be pretty easy to have the alternatives system maintain symlinks for choosing between mono and pnet alternatives.
Regards -fawad
Miguel de Icaza wrote:
Hello,
Mono and pnet will still block each other, but at least Mono will have a consistent naming and easy for newbie people.
I really don't mind that mono blocks pnet because I'm planning to use only
Mono, but as a Linux user I would prefer to have open alternatives. That's
why I love Linux, because the possibility of choosing.
That is a packaging issue though. The same happens with mail for example, /usr/lib/sendmail has been hardcoded in every application, and distributions still work around this problem without a hitch.
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