etc alternatives craziness

[Res]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> That is, "adjust the symlinks by using update-alternatives" - otherwise
> there's always the possibility that a future package will overwrite the
> symlink.  otoh, I already told him I wasn't going to help anymore...


I removed ubuntus antiquated version of amsn (as well as a lot of other 
crap) as well, in fact another new version of amsn again just last week, 
the only problem I ever had was (some time ago) it decided to change wish 
to manual, re-set it to auto seem to make it happy again.

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Res

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