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Re: introduction of x-www-browser virtual package



Paul Wise writes:
> On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 13:20 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> I could add a sensible-x-www-browser to be more nice to our user to
>> sensible-utils
>
> We already have a x-www-browser alternative, so sensible-x-www-browser
> would just duplicate that and is thus not needed.

No, the alternatives system is not really useful for users (as only root
can choose an alternative).  Having root choose a single
{editor,pager,browser,...} for all users is not a good solution.

Ansgar


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