[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:              2010-11-24 23:31 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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 (0008497) phil (manager) - 2010-11-24 23:31
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4556#c8497 
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Thank you for the clarification.
Although there is still some ambiguity.


Do you mean "one file, with multiple alternative lines in it,
(not proper format in this example)

softA  10
softB  10
softC  10


or do you mean, "multiple packages implementing an 'alternative' for
softA, and all packages give same priority for their alternative"?

I consider the second case, to be a bug in those packages.
If user installs "all  packages", we need to have a reasonable path to
install something as the "best" alternative implementation, without
prompting the user.


PS: I also dont know what this "ckitem" is you are referring to.