[csw-maintainers] the problem of imapd

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
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>> /opt/csw/sbin/imapd
>> /opt/csw/libexec/cyrus/imapd
>> /opt/csw/bin/imapd
>
> I'd suggest that the binaries and man pages are renamed with a suffix
> like .uw or .cyrus, etc.  We can then use alternatives on the man
> pages (and the binaries if appropriate).  We'd still need a
> coordinated update on this though.

I'm not sure that using "alternatives" is even a good idea for these purposes.

They are not particularly work-alikes. They just share the same name.
I think "alternatives" is best used when there is a very high degree
of functional similarity.