Hi, On Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > why not use update-alternatives? AIUI packages should use that, > > while dpkg- divert is more for local admins. > Just for the record, dpkg-divert is not just for local admins. well, it's certainly not the way it was designed (like native packages were also designed and then it was found out that its better not to use them at all...) but given the way they work - and given the alternatives system exist, I came to the conclusion they should never be used by packages and update alternatives should always be used instead. IIRC there is no usecase where diverts achieve something which cannot be done with alternatives. > But is update-alternatives really an alternative here? It can only be > used by cooperating packages, where all of them agree to use > update-alternatives. If the package with the file in question do not > use update-alternatives, none of the other packages can use it either. > While dpkg-divert can be used by non-cooperating packages. Well, I think we want to have different themes in Debian too, not only in Debian Edu. So the packages providing this already need to cooperate. > How is the Debian artwork packages picking gdm3 background? Can't we > use the same mechanism? good question. I've joined #debian-desktop now to find out more about this... cheers, Holger
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