[csw-maintainers] newpkgs alternatives (was Re: Alternatives)

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 19.12.2009 um 01:27 schrieb Ben Walton:
>>
>> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Fri Dec 18 17:44:17 -0500 2009:
>>
>>> by that argument, you might say that me naming "pkg-get" as such, and
>>> not "apt-get", was just too confusing, because since the userland
>>> syntax is the same, and it IS a 90% clone of apt-get, I should have
>>> kept the name as apt-get.
>>
>> The difference being pkg-get is an apt-get workalike.  The package
>> Maciej has put forward is the 'real deal[1].'
>>
>> While the name used in Debian is long and annoying to type, even with
>> auto-completion, it's really not something you interact with often, if
>> at all.
>>
>> So, my 'vote' is that if we don't do a ground up reimplementation, we
>> stick with the name from Debian.  If somebody wants to invest the time
>> tailoring a solution to CSW, pick a new name.
>>
>> <wonders aloud>
>> Is anyone else out there not making use of auto-completion shell
>> features?  Life feels too short for that! :)
>> </wonders aloud>
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>> [1] It's the identical code/functionality split out from a larger
>>   Debian package.
>
> +1 from me and it is still not released. Could we please get on with this?
> I need this for at least two packages (mutt and especially automake),
> both pending release.

Here's the submission message then.  Since the new mailing list hasn't
been created yet, I'm using the maintainers list instead.

* new package: alternatives
  + alternatives-1.15.5.3,REV=2009.12.10-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz


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