[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Alternatives handled by RPM (#993)

[Appadeia]

Alternatives seem like a natural thing to be handled by RPM, but instead, it's handled by whatever a vendor cooks up for managing alternatives (which can get ugly specwise fast).

For packagers, alternatives managed by RPM could simply look like a `%alternative source dest` in the `%files` section of a package.

For how it could be implemented in rpm itself, files used as alternatives could be stored in the rpmdb, which rpm can hard/symlink from to the destination as the end user switches between them.

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