Re: removal of alternatives system

[John Leach <john@johnleach.co.uk>]

On 27/03/14 09:08, Hleb Valoshka wrote:
> On 3/27/14, John Leach <john@johnleach.co.uk> wrote:
>> "The Ruby packages in Debian no longer support switching between
>> different Ruby versions using update-alternatives. All unversioned
>> binary names such as `ruby`, `gem` etc are now provided by the `ruby`
>> package, and will be symbolic links pointing to the binaries
>> corresponding to the current default version in Debian."
>>
>> I'm just curious about why this change was made. The mailing list search
>> system isn't helping me dig out the answers here :)
> 
> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739611
> 
> 

thanks Hleb,

I was interested in specifically why it was decided that the ruby
versions should no longer be switchable (or if they are still switchable
in some way, why it was decided not to use the alternatives system).

Thanks,

John.