On 2022-07-08 at 07:48, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 12:47:19PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > >> here on bookworm >> mick@pumpkin:~$ ls -la /usr/bin |grep which >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jan 23 18:05 which -> >> /etc/alternatives/which >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 946 May 1 17:47 which.debianutils >> mick@pumpkin:~$ >> >> what are these "alternatives" ? > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives There's also /etc/alternatives/README which points you to the update-alternatives(1) man page, which provides a reasonable level of documentation of the concept. (Though I'll admit that that README may be a bit hard to notice, among the many other items in that directory.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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