[csw-maintainers] Alternatives

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Mon Dec 07 12:36:27 -0500 2009:

> Why should it?  It's not specific to CSW.  It can be used to use
> alternatives from any package provider.

No, I think Phil is right here.  As much as restricting ourselves to
/opt/csw would also restrict overall usefulness, it's the only policy
(in my current thinking) that wouldn't open a big nasty can of worms.

It'd be great to replace /usr/lib/sendmail using these mechanisms, but
if other packages aren't aware of the system, it really wouldn't help
much anyway.

Thanks
-Ben
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