update-alternatives questions

[Ossama Othman <othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>]

Hi,

I was messing around with update-alternatives since I had a bunch of
dangling symbolic links in my man pages for some reason.  I think the
dangling links may be related to the fact that I removed emacs and
installed xemacs.

Basically I did the following really stupid thing:

	myhost:/etc/alternatives# foreach i (`ls`)
				 >   update-alternatives --auto $i
				 >   end

Afterwards, it still seemed like I had some dangling links.  Since there
is currently no documentation for update-alternatives, could some one
please explain what it is for?  I thought I understood what it was for but
since it didn't behave as expected I was hoping could tell me how and when
to use it.

Thanks.
-Ossama

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