man dangling symlink question

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following:

home:~# ls -l  /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           31 Sep 21 10:12 /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz
home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           36 Sep 26 19:56 /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex8.1.1.gz
home:~# ls /usr/share/man/man1/tix*
/usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz@  /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish8.1.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tixwish.1.gz@


My question: what exactly is tixindex an alternative *for*?  Am I safe
just blowing away both those symlinks?

This may or may not be relevant:

home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/tixindex
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Sep 26 19:56 /etc/alternatives/tixindex -> /usr/bin/tixindex8.1

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