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Re: vienna-rna is almost ready



On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Let's assume a conflict on the name popt from packages A and B.
> 
> Here is what I would do:
> 
> 	/usr/bin/popt.A
> 	/usr/bin/popt.B
> 
> 	/usr/bin/popt -> /etc/alternatives/popt
> 
> 	/etc/alternatives/popt -> /usr/bin/popt.A or /usr/bin/popt.B

This would mean a misuse of the alternatives system.  Alternatives is
not intended to work around name spacing conflicts but rather to provide
a generic interface to packages which are providing the same
*functionality*.  In this thread we were discussing programms with
totally different functionality which must not be handled by
alternatives.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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