RFC: update-alternatives

[Brian Dessent]

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> > (2) Red Hat (Fedora 4)
> >   + complete rewrite in C, no perl dependency
> >   + work-a-like to original Debian version
> >   - as is, requires libintl and libiconv which are not in Base
> 
> ?? I thought they were (if only as dependencies), since bash uses
> them:

It is only bash 3.x that depends on those.  However, coreutils and gawk
both depend on libintl3 and libiconv2, so as Igor said they are defacto
Base packages.

Brian