From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eray Ozkural (exa)" To: Fabrice Gautier Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Lets rename insight to "insight" (imagine that) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 03:19:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A17B773.BA036916@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00251.html Fabrice Gautier wrote: > > > And I would had that debian has a mechanisme called alternatives to handle a > case like this. It would allows to install both original gdb and insight or > only one of them without conflict and allow you to choose which one is > really launched by the gdb > command. > (Does the debian insight package use alterntives?) > Uh, no. It doesn't use alternatives because we don't think that a graphical gdb is an alternative for gdb ;) Seriously, there's already gdb5.0 in a separate package and we think that one of them is not really a replacement for the other because there might be other programs which would assume the pure gdb. > This, in the end seems to be a matter of distribution. > I don't know if there is such a mechanisme with RPMs, its quite an > fundamental feature for Debian... Yes, alternatives are nice. In fact I'd like to make it an alternative for, let's say graphical-debugger. Something like that. Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo