[csw-maintainers] the problem of imapd

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Tue Feb 15 22:06:14 -0500 2011:

> 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.

Fair enough.  It was just a thought.  On other systems, this type of
'provides similar functionality' (as opposed to 'provides similar or
extended interface' [ala sendmail, sudo*, etc]) use is offered.
Example from Debian/Ubuntu:

$ ls -l /usr/bin/editor /etc/alternatives/editor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-01-07 03:50 /usr/bin/editor -> /etc/alternatives/editor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 2011-01-07 03:50 /etc/alternatives/editor -> /bin/nano


If the binaries are to be renamed then I think matching the man page
with the binary name makes the most sense.

Thanks
-Ben
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