etc alternatives craziness

[Ed Lazerus]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Christopher Chan <
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:

>
> > I screwed nothing up, I did not like the very old versions of lynx,
> > and amsn, so i used synaptic to completely remove them, then i
> > installed the source for lynx, and built amsn using make deb, so
> > ubuntu screwed up
> >  by not removing whatever it wants in /etc/alternatives given I used
> > complete remove option.
>
> Yes you did. This is how Ubuntu was built and you will find the same I
> suspect in other distributions that are more recent.
>
>
If this is true, then ubuntu is not for me, if I wish dictatorship in
operating system, I'll use windows!
To expect someone to know this must be done a certain way is unreasonable
and not good for linux.

 You should have built your new amsn according to the layout the Ubuntu

> amsn package uses and then upgrade or done a source compile installation
> into /opt and adjusted the symlinks accordingly in /etc/alternatives.
>
>
it should run regardless, again, dictatorship, to expect people to know to
link to this that links to that, is lamer material.

thank you for your words, I know going to install opensuse which does not
from googling use this stupid messy alternatives rubbish.


ciao Eddie
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