Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation

["der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com>]

Am 11. Aug, 2018 schwätzte Ryan Nowakowski so:

moin moin Ryan,

> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 08:08:00PM +0000, der.hans wrote:
> > moin moin,
> >
> > I'm giving a presentation on /etc/alternatives in a few hours.
> >
> > If you use the alternatives system a lot and would like to spend a few
> > minutes reviewing my talk for me, please see the links below.
> >
> > Any use cases or cool functionality that I've missed?
> >
> > Anything I've gotten completely wrong?
> >
> > Any suggestions for good examples?
> >
> > AsciiDoc source file:
> >
> > https://www.LuftHans.com/Akten/Presentations/2018/PLUG/PLUG.intro_to_etc_alternatives.2018Aug09.adoc
> >
> > Slidy HTML ( one-page format without JavaScript, slides with JavaScript ):
> >
> > https://www.LuftHans.com/Akten/Presentations/2018/PLUG/PLUG.intro_to_etc_alternatives.2018Aug09.html
>
> You might add more info on how the other methods interact with
> update-alternatives.  For example if I set the EDITOR env var how does
> that interact with update-alternatives when I run visudo?  In fact I
> think something like a "best practices" is needed for setting default
> programs and then overriding them on a per user basis.  I'm not sure
> this presentation is the right place for that but perhaps it could be
> a wiki page in the future.

Yeah, I think I need to write/update an article on how they are used and
in what order they're evaluated. That would actually be a good resource
for my anatomy of the command line presentation as well.

I also need more examples.

ciao,

der.hans
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