emacs and /etc/alternatives

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Mar 8 18:01:16 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating writes:
 > On Thursday 08 March 2007 12:35:44 Matthias Clasen wrote:
 > > If the two packages conflict, they cannot be installed in parallel, and
 > > thus you don't need the alternatives mechanism to pick one...
 > 
 > Or simply name the binary of one emacs-nox and the other emacs.  If nothing 
 > else conflicts that is.

Mmm, but that surely means that if you type "emacs foo.c" it'll just
say "command not found".

Andrew.




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