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update-alternatives and /dev/random



Hello,
Is there a specific reason to continue using update-alternatives for
providing /dev/random ??

Here are my arguments *not* to use update-alternatives to provide
random and urandom
(a) Debian/Linux - Does not provide it this way (Context is
consistency across debian ports)
(b) Recursive grep through /etc/ on hurd would fail with the error message
      "Resource lost"
    while on Debian/Linux it would succeed (at least it did on my box).


Regards,
Harish


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