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From: Ryan Nowakowski <tubaman@fattuba.com>
Sent: Sunday, 12 August 2018 8:28 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 08:08:00PM +0000, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin, > > I'm giving a presentation on /etc/alternatives in a few hours. > > If you use the alternatives system a lot and would like to spend a few > minutes reviewing my talk for me, please see the links below. > > Any use cases or cool functionality that I've missed? > > Anything I've gotten completely wrong? > > Any suggestions for good examples? > > AsciiDoc source file: > > https://www.LuftHans.com/Akten/Presentations/2018/PLUG/PLUG.intro_to_etc_alternatives.2018Aug09.adoc > > Slidy HTML ( one-page format without _javascript_, slides with _javascript_ ): > > https://www.LuftHans.com/Akten/Presentations/2018/PLUG/PLUG.intro_to_etc_alternatives.2018Aug09.html > You might add more info on how the other methods interact with update-alternatives. For example if I set the EDITOR env var how does that interact with update-alternatives when I run visudo? In fact I think something like a "best practices" is needed for setting default programs and then overriding them on a per user basis. I'm not sure this presentation is the right place for that but perhaps it could be a wiki page in the future. |