Am 01.04.19 um 06:57 schrieb Allan McRae:
On 1/4/19 2:12 pm, Andrew Gregory wrote:
On 04/01/19 at 09:56am, Allan McRae wrote:
Hi all,
I plan to finish implementing an alternatives system for pacman post 5.2 release: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Alternatives
Any comments or suggestions?
"All alternatives are symlinked in /usr/bin so no need to specify the full path."
Why? Arch puts all executables in /usr/bin but other users may not.
Make the path configurable, if anyone ever asks for that. Or if they want a range of locations, extend it to allow optional full paths. And this will have some configurability with the --prefix or --bindir configuration options (at least in autotools).
I do think there could be use cases for alternatives outside /usr/bin: What if someone wanted to use an alternative for something else than a executable? For example something like /usr/lib/jvm/default comes to mind. So using alternatives couldn't selecting a default java be handled by pacman alone, instead of needing a helper like archlinux-java? (Or does that helper do anything, alternatives couldn't handle?) -- regards, brainpower