Re: User level alternatives?
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:26:37 +0800
Wei Chen <wchenhk@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be
> used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it
> useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain
> similar symbol links in `~/bin' or something like
> `~/bin/alternatives'? Or does that already exist? I personally think
> it can be useful, because I currently do that manually.
An alternative (if you'll pardon the pun) is to use sensible-browser,
sensible-editor, and sensible-pager from the debianutils package. Those
consult environment variables to determine which corresponding
application to launch. It is easy to imaging extending that approach to
other cases where similar functionality is offered by two or more
applications.
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Liam
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