On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 09:27:39PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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.
Absolutely. "Preferable" is an understatement. :)
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences