Re: xterminal alternatives.

To: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>, Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
Cc: Masato Taruishi <taruisma@sunicom.co.jp>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: xterminal alternatives.
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:14:37 -0400
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> The only difficulty with update-alternatives is that it can't be used
> per-user.  Can the other scheme?  Do we care?

update-alternatives can be used per-user, if the system adminstrator
chooses: you just have a shell script which will let its default
be overridden if some environmental variable is defined.

-- 
Raul

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