Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt
Slight tangent...
* Robert Wilhelm Land <Robert.Land@t-online.de> [021008 22:00]:
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>
> Additionaly - are these links a debian way of setting up a system?,
> I'm really confused!
Yes. This is the Debian "alternatives" system. Since there are often
many different programs that will perform the same basic task, Debian
provides a configurable system for choosing a machine wide default for each.
Have a look at the man page for "update-alternatives".
Try for example:
update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator
This will give you a menu of all the editors on your system and let you
change/chose the default one. Basically, the above command just changes
the sym links pointing to and from /etc/alternatives.
do an "ls /etc/alternatives" to see all the things that can be
configured in this fashion.
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Cheers,
Nick.
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