Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:23, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:57, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com) said: 
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 10:43, Robert Marcano wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > However, that won't be the ONLY feature of Fedora Core 2.  I'd like to
> > > > > hear people's wishlists...
> > > > 
> > > > Make default applications configurable, for example instead of Mozilla
> > > > Web Browser, call it Web Browser and allows the user to change it
> > > > without messing around with the .desktop files
> > > 
> > > We have a system mechanism for this in the alternatives system. Any
> > > chance of extending that to provide a uniform user-level way of
> > > specifying alternatives?
> > 
> > I'd prefer not; the alternatives hack is something that should be
> > severely limited in where it's used.
> 
> Are there alternatives to alternatives?
Could be done on the package(rpm) level.
Making some packages contain the same file(s), and Conflicts: and a few
more tricks. That will only allow one of several alternatives to be
installed at the time though.

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