On 2014-11-11 13:25, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > That said, I wouldn't particularly object to using alternatives to allow > co-installation just in case. Although I'd be inclined to provide the > functionality by instead using dpkg-divert in ettercap-graphical to move > the text-only version of /usr/bin/ettercap to > /usr/bin/ettercap-text-only, thus avoiding unnecessarily increasing the > footprint of ettercap-text-only.
That's a solution as well, but it won't easily scale beyond 2 packages. (I have enough experience diverting libGL.so* and friends from MESA and implementing a alternatives-based switching method for the proprietary drivers.) Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org