Alternatives problems

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:33:52PM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> I noticed today that there is a slight problem with installing multiple
> variants alongside each other.  As an example, both vim-perl and
> vim-python would run the following command in their postinst:
> 
>   update-alternatives \
>     --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/bin/vim 50 \
>     --slave $mandir/vi.1.gz vi.1.gz $mandir/vim.1.gz
> 
> This results in only one entry listed in update-alternatives:

Weren't we used to have the non-variant alternatives handling in
non-variant packages? I.e.: why that code is in vim-{perl,python,...}
instead of being in vim-common?

I understand it will create dangling symlink there, but it seems to be
the right place and will fix the above problem.

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