Matthew Miller wrote:
Since we also already ship the environment-modules package, an
env-module
for plan 9 could be included; users who want the plan 9 binaries could
either set their path manually or run "module load plan9".
This seems preferable to the "alternatives" system, since it's per-user
rather than systemwide.
Alternatives is entirely unacceptable for this kind of core system binaries
anyway. You break a lot of things if e.g. /bin/ls suddenly does something
different.
Kevin Kofler