Klee, Ian -
I have written a manual page for update-alternatives. Please check it
for correctness, and consider including it in the next release of
dpkg. (Or maybe just do a cvs checkin? I have not kept track of how
dpkg is being managed.)
I could not see that --quiet, --verbose, or --test did anything.
- Jim Van Zandt
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