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On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:26:23 -0500, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> I must be thinking of our mailer trick then?
>
> I know i've seen it somewhere before.
>
> Alternatives sounds fun though?
>

I've seen several discussions on the bsd lists with everyone against the  
debian alternatives way. I don't know the history but I don't think it has  
much support. I assume it has to do with binaries passing through /etc via  
symlinks. I don't personally have much of an opinion on this.