[csw-maintainers] Alternatives

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Gary Law <glaw at opencsw.org> wrote:
> 2009/12/10 Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>:
>> ick. that's rather user-unfriendly.
>> If that's how debian-alternatives does it... lets go one BETTER than debian, eh?
>
> -1. I suggest copy Debian, bugs and all, first. Then think about
> improving it if/when we get some feedback. Personally I like the
> alternatives system, it's 'unixy' in all the right ways.


Errr.. we're not implementing "WINE" here. we have no reward for
copying the BUGS :-}

I like the concept of the alternatives system. I'm suggesting we
implement debian normal behavior, and then *augment* it, to be better.
Such as, including a short-command invocation.