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On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 13:17 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:

> (And RedHat based linux distributions don't have any concept of alternatives. 

True...until about 10 years ago.

    Sun Jan 27 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
    - reimplemented update-alternatives as just alternatives

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=chkconfig.git;a=commit;h=e68fd156aa94245e111a50ff4bee31f304b52727