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Re: fix the world, make it a better place ...



En réponse à Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:

> > Alternatives are not such a right. Don't you remember
> > the Perl mess using alternatives before Brendan O'Dea
> > took it over? 
> 
> I don't know, i don't really follow Perl stuff.
> 
> Could you summarize the dangers of using alternatives for us ?

The danger is to have alternatives for different files pointing
to different versions of programs.

For example, imagine a mess with gcc pointing to gcc-2.95 and
g++ pointing to g++-3.2.

This is the reason why the symlink solution without alternative
is not used in gcc, for example.

> > Let's do it like Python.
> 
> How does python do it ?

Only the greatest version of Python provides the emacs package.
It is unversioned.

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Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
              <jerome.marant@free.fr>

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