On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
At Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:46:03 +0200, Lars Müller wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:05:37PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 19/08/11 05:40, Takashi Iwai wrote:
What are the drawbacks you see with this mechanism?
Complexity.
Yes, that's my point, this update-alternatives thing introduces yet another layer of "magic" that does not always work smoothly.
openSUSE, Linux, Open Source Software _always_ doesn't work smoothly. I suggest we drop all of this stuff asap.
Sorry I can't acceppt this as an arguement. Bug IDs please. That's what we can judge on.
I understand Cristian's concern because I also suffered from a bug of update-alternative a few times. It happened more often while upgrading distro versions.
Just try to upgrade your system from 10.1 to 12.1 one by one. At some point, you'll likely get an non-working java, for example. Then enter a bug report. Someone will close it immediately as WONTFIX for such an old version :)
The complexity itself is a bad thing. A golden rule is "always remember KISS". That is, if we can avoid this extra complexity, we should avoid it.
OTOH, in the case of gzip/pigz, it's difficult to achieve the same functionality (replacing gzip dynamically per installation status) without a help of such a complex layer. That's why I'm for this option even though I have no good feeling to update-alternative.
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