Re: xdvi alternatives

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Frank!
>
> On Die, 17 Apr 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
>> fact --list with grep be more appropriate?  Even if someone changed the
>
> No, because, as said, it does not list the actual setting, but those
> registered in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/xdvi.bin. And the entry for the
> tetex version can already be removed.
>
> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/editor
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2007-04-18 07:08 /etc/alternatives/editor -> /usr/bin/fooobarbaz
> $ update-alternatives --list editor
> /bin/ed
> /bin/nano
> /usr/bin/vim.full
> /usr/bin/vim.basic
> /usr/bin/emacs21
> /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot
> $

But doesn't that mean that unless someone (our packages or the local
admin) unregistered tetex-bin's xdvi, it will show up in the output of
"u-a --list xdvi.bin", no matter whether the link points there or not?
And doesn't it make sense to unregister it ("u-a --remove ...") it in
this case?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)