On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> The whole idea of trying to give a common name to some alternative
> package with a scheme like pkg_alternatives is totally bogus from the
> get go.

Maybe to you, but not to a lot of users.  It helps system maintenance tasks
that otherwise would require...

> login shell features or similar.

...something which is nice to automate.  I was skeptical at first, too, but
after deploying it on a few heterogeneous systems myself, I'm hooked.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>