Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net>
Subject: Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 18:39:41 +0100

> Maybe I should have explained the per user override bit above.
> This can currently only be done manually as follows:
> 
> ln -s `which hanterm` ~/bin/x-terminal-emulator
> export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Well, I guess perhaps you don't need even alternatives at all ;-)

Is it a way of Debian style?  Is ~/bin a Debian component?

If I use other UNIX/Linux system then I might do as you said
but, fortunately, I use Debian.  And Debian provides us many
excellent tools, one of which is alternatives, so it is not
necessary to use '~/bin' nor tedious 'ln -s' in almost all cases.

And if there are (rare) cases where a user needs to fiddle with
'~/bin' or tedious 'ln -s' manually with the present alternatives 
mechanism and sensible-x-terminal-emulator can handle the cases
well enought then why you are opposed to sensible-x-terminal-emulator?

I believe that sensible-x-terminal-emulator will become one of
excellent tools of Debian in the near future.

Best Regards,			      2000.7.22

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.