On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 10:47 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 16:32 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > There is more than disliking it. > > > > > > > > > > If e.g. 'rsh' is linked to 'ssh', people do not get what they expect. > > > > > > > > this is depends on alternative's weight... if rexec tools are not > > > > installed, ssh may still provide rsh functionality. > > > > > > It is not. > > > > it may be configured differently, but ssh definitely provides you a > > basic rsh functionality. > > I am not sure whether you understand the effects of these "alternatives".
Sure it might create an ambiguity effect, but there are mechanisms which helps you to avoid that. (alternative's weight in this case) In your example, most likely, rsh been created because it didn't exist at the time when ssh were installing. rsh has a higher weight, therefore, once you install rsh package, it will overwrite rsh alternative to the one with higher priority, i.e. real rsh. There are other management mechanisms, like "alternative's slaves", which also quite handy and help you to avoid ambiguity but now for "slave" things like dependent directories with similar names, etc. The end result of alternatives is better user and developer experience and this is what makes Debian-based systems most suitable for developers. I still do not understand your concerns, and positive that "alternatives" is a good thing, but it takes time till people actually will start to appreciate it. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
