Re: Proposal alternatives
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Good morning guys!
>
> I'm sometimes in the need to boot from disk and mount the root
> partition as /mnt. After that I'm unable to call e.g. a vi because
> it uses update-alterantives together with absolute paths.
>
> /mnt/usr/bin/vi --> /etc/alternatives/vi
> /mnt/etc/alternatives/vi --> /usr/bin/elvis
>
> Could we please discuss if it would make more sense using relative
> paths?
>
> I really would appreciate this.
Why not just do this after mounting your fs:-
ln -sf /mnt/etc/alternatives /etc
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joey
>
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