On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> There are certain VERY useful features that dpkg offers that RPM doesn't.
> Take for example, the /etc/alternatives directory that's present in
> Debian.
>
> Suppose you have 5 machines, and want to use a shared, NFS mounted /usr
> filesystem. On the fileserver, you might have emacs 19, 20, and xemacs 20
> installed. All of the Debian packages will install with names like
>
> /usr/bin/emacs19
> /usr/bin/emacs20
> /usr/bin/xemacs20
>
> and /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs
>
> In the /etc/alternatives directory is a bunch of symlinks that point to the
> actual program you would like to choose out of /usr/bin. That's cool, and
> extremely handy.
>
I am sorry, but I fail to see your point. I understand that there is a
directory "/etc/alternatives" very early in your PATH, and you can create
symlinks there. Well, what is stopping you to do the very same thing on
ANY OTHER unix machine???? AND what has it got with package management?
regards,
Hossein
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