[FS#3299] busybox: Alternatives gets overwrited when busybox updates

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FS#3299 - busybox: Alternatives gets overwrited when busybox updates
User who did this - Brian J. Murrell (brianjmurrell)

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I don't think $PATH location for alternatives is a good solution.  People might have perfectly valid reasons for preferring one */bin* directory over another.

What I am failing to understand is why this problem is even happening with ALTERNATIVES:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=package/utils/busybox/Makefile;h=62af99d3ae15f4b2aca76111124fc114fdee2b7b;hb=HEAD#l51
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile;h=1c8e3e66d6174d1da78d82dc19aa6ec72acbb073;hb=HEAD#l40
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=package/network/utils/iproute2/Makefile;h=1c8e3e66d6174d1da78d82dc19aa6ec72acbb073;hb=HEAD#l49

[links from #1895 where this was explained to me previously]
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