Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:04 PM +0200 Dag Wieers > <dag at wieers.com> wrote: > >> For the kernel there is a lot of specialized logic to >> make it work. > > Another example is Fedora's alternatives system (which, for example, > allows multiple versions of Java to coexist) but again that requires > specialized logic. Question: how many levels of symlinks-pointing-to-symlinks does it take to get to the right place? And having supplied this number of symlinks, how can a user choose to execute one version of java while someone else prefers the other? Or how do you run one application under one version and another with a different one? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com