Re: User level alternatives?
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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen 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.
>
> Just set aliases in your .bash_aliases file.
>
That is not always convenient. I want to switch between gcj's VM and
compiler and sun's for one account. The names of the executables are the
same, i.e. `java' and `javac'.
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Cheers,
Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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