Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de> writes: >>> - in mplayer: install /usr/bin/mplayer.gui >>> - in mplayer-nogui: install /usr/bin/mplayer.nogui >>> - use update-alternatives(8) in both packages >> >> I like the idea of update-alternatives, and having the 2 packages not >> conflicting by installing the same file. It has to be run in the >> debian/postinst file, right? > > So is my understanding of update-alternatives.
Thinking more about it, I think we might don't even need update-alternatives. The current mplayer package in debian installs /usr/bin/gmplayer as symlink to /usr/bin/mplayer. I believe that if we would just install /usr/bin/gmplayer as regular binary instead of a symlink to /usr/bin/mplayer, we wouldn't need update-alternatives at all and wouldn't need to rename files and such. Now I wonder why the upstream Makefiles don't produce both versions of mplayer themselves but require separate configure runs. I'll check that out. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
