From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28846 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2009 20:24:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 28839 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Mar 2009 20:24:02 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (HELO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com) (71.74.56.124) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:23:54 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.196] (really [64.128.247.218]) by hrndva-smta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090326202352.HLR9192.hrndva-smta02.mail.rr.com@[10.0.0.196]> for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:23:52 +0000 Message-ID: <49CBE458.6000207@tampabay.rr.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:24:00 -0000 From: John Gogolin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /etc/alternatives was RE: [Re: GCC 4 installation problem] References: <49CA8243.2090908@encelade.com> <49CA90D2.9080809@gmail.com> <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C875302E759AB@core-email.int.ascribe.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q1/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 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. >