Re: User level alternatives?

[Wei Chen <wchenhk@gmail.com>]

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Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote:
> Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I'm sorry I don't know the answer to whether something like this exists
> already, but I've gotta say I wondered the exact same thing yesterday,
> when I changed my default x-www-browser from konqueror to firefox.
> 
> I second that this would be interesting.
> 

I set that mainly for Java related commands such as `java' and `javac'.
I have to set that to point to sun's executables for one account.

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Cheers,

Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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