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File: /etc/alternatives/README
Some alternatives, if there is no manpage, and are crypticly named,
are a big mystery to users as to what they are for. The most one can
to is to run strings(1) on the binary they point to. There ought to
be a better way to see what each officially registered alternatives'
intention is.
And some plain have no man page and some link to
/usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz, there is no consistency enforced.
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dpkg doesn't provide any alternatives itself, therefore has no control
over their naming, documentation or lack thereof.
If there is a particular alternative you don't like, please file a bug
on the packages that provide it.
Scott
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Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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