Re: x-terminal-emulator

[Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <era@ieeesb.etsit.upm.es>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:31:21AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:12:30AM +0100, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote:
> > If we used a wrapper script instead of a link as
> > 
> > /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
> 
> But this is a gross kludge.

Not much grosser than providing a command (x-terminal-emulator) with
an undefined and variable set of options, and which is in fact a
symbolic link to a symbolic link... (yes, I am talking about the whole
alternatives system).

Of course, other solutions:
  -To convince all the upstream developers to fix option conflicts.
   (Yes, this is the Right Thing, but meanwhile...)
  -To rely on the user-assisted command line wrapper under
   /usr/man/... ;). No alternatives system is needed for that.

Enrique.



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