9base in Fedora?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon May 23 19:27:39 UTC 2011


Matthew Miller wrote:
> Since we also already ship the environment-modules package, an env-module
> for plan 9 could be included; users who want the plan 9 binaries could
> either set their path manually or run "module load plan9".
> 
> This seems preferable to the "alternatives" system, since it's per-user
> rather than systemwide.

Alternatives is entirely unacceptable for this kind of core system binaries 
anyway. You break a lot of things if e.g. /bin/ls suddenly does something 
different.

        Kevin Kofler



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