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Re: /etc/alternatives was RE: [Re: GCC 4 installation problem]

From: John Gogolin <jgogolin at tampabay dot rr dot com>
To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:23:52 -0400
Subject: Re: /etc/alternatives was RE: [Re: GCC 4 installation problem]
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Michael Hennebry wrote:

Eschew obfuscation.

bless you

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Phil Betts wrote:

For the second problem, perhaps it would also help if the names of the
links in the alternatives directory were a hash of the program name.
E.g.
/usr/bin/gs -> /etc/alternatives/9ad6a289eea9c92be09d3a5a8bc737e6
/etc/alternatives/9ad6a289eea9c92be09d3a5a8bc737e6 -> /usr/bin/gs-x11
where 9ad6a289eea9c92be09d3a5a8bc737e6 is the md5sum of "/usr/bin/gs".
This would make it much more obvious that the links were managed, or
at least give one pause for thought before diving in.

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