On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:03:32AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > another somewhat related config option would be for various > alternatives to ask if they should be the default one, I mean I > installed quite a few terminal emulators and now one random of them is > x-terminal-emulator (probably the one I installed last) I remember my first Debian install, with Hamm. blah blah blah window-managers blah blah Would you like to make twm your default window manager? [Y/N] N ... blah blah blah window-managers blah blah Would you like to make olwm your default window manager? [Y/N] N ... blah blah blah window-managers blah blah Would you like to make olvwm your default window manager? [Y/N] N ... blah blah blah window-managers blah blah Would you like to make icewm your default window manager? [Y/N] N and so on, for every single window manager. (I guess the task I picked at the time installed just about every window manager in Debian at the time.) It was the single most annoying thing about the Hamm install for me. alternatives are designed so the best general purpose tool rises to the top. If it matters, fix it manually, which is designed to be simple and easy. -- David Starner - dvdeug@hushmail.com http://dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in space, lost in time, and meaning. -- RHPS
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