On 20/10/19 10:15 am, Levente Polyak wrote: > On October 20, 2019 2:10:44 AM GMT+02:00, Andrew Gregory > <andrew.gregor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So the features I think would be useful are: >> 1) the ability to select alternatives per-file >> 2) the ability to select alternatives per-package >> 3) the ability to group alternatives, potentially spanning multiple >> packages, and select them per-group >> > > > Just a tiny side note, but it would be awesome to support > paths instead of only pure files as providers. This would > allow to make the Java system default jvm directory > to be managed by pacman as well instead of relying > on custom archlinux-java script. >
That is on the cards. I had the example of the lua include directory in the first email, but did not explicitly specify that we could symlink directories as well as files. Allan