Re: New design for policy on disk allowing multiple policy rpms to be simultaniously installed.

[Stephen Smalley <sds epoch ncsc mil>]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:18, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Well, the existing means to handle simultaneous installs of otherwise 
> mutually exclusive packages is the
> alternatives mechanism used to handle sendmail vs. postfix and lpd vs. cups.
> 
> Yes, symlinks, feeble, but that is the existing mechanism, might as well 
> use if in the distro.

Can you elaborate on how this works presently?  How do you avoid
conflicts among multiple packages owning those symlinks?

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