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llvm-toolchain-snapshot package

  1. Bug #991493
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 991493

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Mike Mestnik (cheako) wrote :

I think you misunderstand the alternatives system. It's used for things that are much more different then simply ABI or API changes. It selected completed different applications, Unity VS Gnome VS KDE. The show stopper for alternatives is at X vs console applications, now if llvm-3.2 was a console app and llvm-3.1 was an X app then yes alternatives would seem inappropriate. However I'd say try and see if there is a problem, you can always have an alternative for the x and console only variants.

Here are some examples of alternatives that change ABI and API as well as the user interface drastically:
x-window-manager
mozilla-flashplugin
x-terminal-emulator
www-browser
x-www-browser