[PLUG] Looking for an rpm feature

Karl M. Hegbloom karlheg at microsharp.com
Mon Mar 25 19:35:54 UTC 2002


>>>>> "Wil" == Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> writes:

    Wil> It's a problem when two packages want to install
    Wil> /usr/bin/foo; there's no way to do it cleanly.

 In the Debian system, if two packages want to install the same
 program, eg "vim" and "nvi" both provide a "vi", each package
 installs a binary with a unique name, and then the
 "update-alternatives" command is used from the postinst to provide a
 symlink named "vi".

 <URL:http://www.pdxlinux.org/cgi-bin/man2html?update-alternatives>

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