Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 02:26:42PM +0300, Vladislav Bogdanov wrote: > 11.08.2014 14:00, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > > With debian, we have a "debconf" question. > > > > Any better ideas? > > On RHEL and Fedora - update-alternatives(8). > > MTA packagess (sendmail, exim, postfix) seem to be most known users of that. > I guess for Red Hat you are right on that. In Debian-land we have: - debconf/dpkg-reconfigure: Used to (re)configure packages themselves. IMO the "right" approach in this case. - update-alternatives: If multiple programs/packages provide the same functionality. What is the default editor, MTA, compiler,... Red Hat provides an alternatives system but AFAIK nothing that is equivalent to the debconf/reconfigure system. Using alternatives seems the right fallback. Red Hat should provide an alternative to their alternatives system, namely rpm-reconfigure ;-) Regards, rck