[arch-dev-public] An introduction to gooeydo

Phil Dillon-Thiselton dibblethewrecker at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 13:35:38 EDT 2007


On 27/07/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:45:51AM -0700, eliott wrote:
> > To me this all reminds me of debian's "alternatives" feature.
> > Just an observation.
>
> It pretty much is, only for one app and not for any app...
>
> While the alternatives feature was a good one, I don't know if we want
> it... it's a little confusing and complex.

I'd just like to clarify that gooeydo was conceived only for use in
.desktop files, not as a general command line tool.  I don't imagine
that users would really be exposed to it, which is kind of bad, in
terms of obfuscation.




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