On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:19:46AM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:47:56AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > >> There is already system for handling that - /etc/alternatives/. According > >> to my Dapper installation it already contains 240 commands with > >> alternatives. > > > > I am familiar with it. You'll find that about half of those are man pages, > > not commands. But do you know how users can discover, in the desktop, what > > those settings are and change them? You can't. > > Galternatives could be included instead of having to use the voodoo > "sudo update-alternatives --config java" (I think...haven't done that > one in a while).
In my opinion, nothing as esoteric as alternatives should be exposed in the desktop, any more than should reordering symlinks in /etc/rc?.d. -- - mdz -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
