[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:              2010-11-25 09:51 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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 (0008498) dam (administrator) - 2010-11-25 09:51
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4556#c8498 
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You are thinking too complicated here: "Alternatives" provides
alternatives, where each alternative can have a priority. If the priorities
are the same it is undefined which one is automatically chosen. For manual
selection each alternative is listed together with the automatic priority
and can be manually selected.

I can't believe you don't know /usr/bin/ckitem, this has been in Solaris
forever and does just what you want here (see ckitem(1) for details).