Re: Priorities of alternatives; was Re: Re (2): xmonad and LXDE.

2013-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of > alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can > imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority > than extant alternatives. Correct? The package postinst script will i

Re: Priorities of alternatives; was Re: Re (2): xmonad and LXDE.

2013-01-19 Thread Kushal Kumaran
peasth...@shaw.ca writes: > man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of > alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can > imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority > than extant alternatives. Correct? > The packager chooses the prior

Priorities of alternatives; was Re: Re (2): xmonad and LXDE.

2013-01-19 Thread peasthope
man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority than extant alternatives. Correct? My example from last July. peter@dalton:~$ update-alternatives --di