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Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation

From	"der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation
Date	2018-08-17 04:40 +0200
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Am 11. Aug, 2018 schwätzte Ryan Nowakowski so:

moin moin Ryan,

> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 08:08:00PM +0000, der.hans wrote:
>> moin moin,
>>
>> I'm giving a presentation on /etc/alternatives in a few hours.
>>
>> If you use the alternatives system a lot and would like to spend a few
>> minutes reviewing my talk for me, please see the links below.
>>
>> Any use cases or cool functionality that I've missed?
>>
>> Anything I've gotten completely wrong?
>>
>> Any suggestions for good examples?
>>
>> AsciiDoc source file:
>>
>> https://www.LuftHans.com/Akten/Presentations/2018/PLUG/PLUG.intro_to_etc_alternatives.2018Aug09.adoc
>>
>> Slidy HTML ( one-page format without JavaScript, slides with JavaScript ):
>>
>> https://www.LuftHans.com/Akten/Presentations/2018/PLUG/PLUG.intro_to_etc_alternatives.2018Aug09.html
>>
>
> You might add more info on how the other methods interact with
> update-alternatives.  For example if I set the EDITOR env var how does
> that interact with update-alternatives when I run visudo?  In fact I
> think something like a "best practices" is needed for setting default
> programs and then overriding them on a per user basis.  I'm not sure
> this presentation is the right place for that but perhaps it could be
> a wiki page in the future.

Yeah, I think I need to write/update an article on how they are used and
in what order they're evaluated. That would actually be a good resource
for my anatomy of the command line presentation as well.

I also need more examples.

ciao,

der.hans
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/etc/alternatives feedback for presentation "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2018-08-09 22:10 +0200
  Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation Ryan Nowakowski <tubaman@fattuba.com> - 2018-08-12 00:30 +0200
    Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-13 15:10 +0200
      Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-14 17:40 +0200
        Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-14 17:50 +0200
      Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2018-08-24 04:30 +0200
        Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-24 14:20 +0200
    Re: /etc/alternatives feedback for presentation "der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com> - 2018-08-17 04:40 +0200

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