New comment by st3r4g on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/29115#issuecomment-787531910 Comment: > First, someone (it might have even been you) had mentioned in IRC that xbps-alternatives was buggy and so I didn't want to put something as critical as startup and shutdown on that. Yes it was me. But virtual packages have similar issues too, and are generally avoided when possible. So I understand that committers do not want to take responsibilities for this. > The second is that I don't know at what point alternatives become available in the life of a new system The symlink should be there as soon as it is installed, so I don't see the issue here... but maybe I'm missing something. As a start it would be good to do what ahesford said and move away from `runit-void` things that should be elsewhere. The `ignorepkg` approach is better than nothing...