LTS and release methodology

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 15:20:06 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:19:46AM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:47:56AM +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
>> >> There is already system for handling that - /etc/alternatives/.  According
>> >> to my Dapper installation it already contains 240 commands with
>> >> alternatives.
>> >
>> > I am familiar with it.  You'll find that about half of those are man pages,
>> > not commands.  But do you know how users can discover, in the desktop, what
>> > those settings are and change them?  You can't.
>>
>> Galternatives could be included instead of having to use the voodoo
>> "sudo update-alternatives --config java" (I think...haven't done that
>> one in a while).
>
> In my opinion, nothing as esoteric as alternatives should be exposed in the
> desktop, any more than should reordering symlinks in /etc/rc?.d.

Isn't that what System -> Administration -> Services is?

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