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Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives
Date 2020-04-06 11:50 +0200
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On 2020-04-06, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is getting well beyond Debian, but why would GNU/Linux in general have
>> so many overlapping ways to register default applications?
>
> Probably a case of competing standards.

Seems more like the distinction between a user-defined preference
(*Preferred Applications* button in the Xfce Settings Manager) and a
system-wide default (/etc/alternatives being designed for the case where
the user has failed to specify a particular preference among two or
more alternatives). That rclone would privilege the former over the
latter seems completely reasonable to me.

> https://xkcd.com/927/
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

> http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
>

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x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-04 18:50 +0200
  Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 08:20 +0200
    Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 13:40 +0200
      Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 14:40 +0200
        Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-04-05 16:00 +0200
          Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-05 18:00 +0200
            Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
          Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 20:10 +0200
            Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
              Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 10:00 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-04-06 11:50 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 12:20 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-04-06 12:40 +0200

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