Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives
On 2020-04-06, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This is getting well beyond Debian, but why would GNU/Linux in general have
>> so many overlapping ways to register default applications?
>
> Probably a case of competing standards.
Seems more like the distinction between a user-defined preference
(*Preferred Applications* button in the Xfce Settings Manager) and a
system-wide default (/etc/alternatives being designed for the case where
the user has failed to specify a particular preference among two or
more alternatives). That rclone would privilege the former over the
latter seems completely reasonable to me.
> https://xkcd.com/927/
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
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