Bug#279252: #279252 uxterm should not override my locale
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:04:20AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> I do not run uxterm. I run x-terminal-emulator, which is supposed to give
>> me a sane terminal emulator by default, but in current sarge, uxterm is
>> the default for x-terminal-emulator. This is what my bug is all about;
>> uxterm should not be the default for x-terminal-emulator. (I've retitled
>> the bug to make it clearer.)
> In that case, it's not a bug against xterm, but against whatever
> meta-package owns "x-terminal-emulator".
>From xterms postinst:
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm 20 (...)
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm 30 (...)
I don't see how anything but xterm is supposed to change this situation.
AFAIK no package "owns" an alternative per se, but I might be wrong here; my
understanding of this was that by default, whatever alternative has the
highest priority is selected as the alternative in use.
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