"Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 15:57 GMT, Daniel B. penned:
> > "Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
> >>
> >> Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question
> >
> > Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling
* Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031009 15:32]:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 20:30 GMT, David Z Maze penned:
> > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a
> >> few days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm sti
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 20:30 GMT, David Z Maze penned:
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a
few days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a
lot) foggy on what exactly it's us
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 20:30 GMT, David Z Maze penned:
> "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a
>> few days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a
>> lot) foggy on what exactly it's used for. For i
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a few
> days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a lot) foggy
> on what exactly it's used for. For instance, I have
> /etc/alternatives/vi and /etc/alternatives/e
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:09:12:03:32-0600] scribed:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 08:35 GMT, Colin Watson penned:
> > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> >> It seems endemic that many package changes are ignorant of that dark
> >> corner of dpkg p
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 15:57 GMT, Daniel B. penned:
> "Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
>>
>> Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question
>
> Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling from high bridge on
> fraying rope" ...
>
>:-)
>
>
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 08:35 GMT, Colin Watson penned:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
>> It seems endemic that many package changes are ignorant of that dark
>> corner of dpkg package that is /usr/sbin/update-alternatives -- why
>> is that?
>
> It doesn't help
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question
Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling from high bridge
on fraying rope" ...
:-)
Daniel
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> It seems endemic that many package changes are ignorant of that dark
> corner of dpkg package that is /usr/sbin/update-alternatives -- why is
> that?
It doesn't help that update-alternatives has historically been buggy and
prone
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:08:16:41:21+] scribed:
> Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following:
>
> home:~# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 31 Sep 21 10:12
> /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz -> /e
On 08 Oct 2003 19:35:26 +0200, JG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
penned:
> Hi,
>
> "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
>
>> Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following:
>>
>> home:~# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx1 root
>> root 31 Sep 2
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