[bug-notifications] [alternatives 0004556]: Major selection used by all packages does not work

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4556 
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Reported By:                dam
Assigned To:                phil
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Project:                    alternatives
Issue ID:                   4556
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   block
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2010-09-28 11:16 CEST
Last Modified:              2010-11-26 03:31 CET
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Summary:                    Major selection used by all packages does not work
Description: 
The major selection option used by all of my packages like
  /opt/csw/sbin/alternatives --config mutt
does not work in this implementation. It should display a menu and allow
easy selection.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          0004602 Postinstall message shows wrong alterna...
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 (0008502) phil (manager) - 2010-11-26 03:31
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4556#c8502 
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Okay, thanks for mentioning ckitem .But that doesnt affect the basic issue
here:

As you have just noted yourself, having multiple alternatives with the
same priority, for the same binary, disallows automatic selection.

This is a bug, not a feature. 
If you want to bring this up on the main maintainers list for a
discussion, fine.
But right now, I'm considering this a bug in the other packages, not
CSWalternatives.