emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Ian Burrell]

On 3/8/07, Chip Coldwell <coldwell at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I'm not a big fan of "alternatives", most users don't know about it,
> > it's a bit arcane, and if you're savvy enough to use alternatives you
> > can probably handle invoking emacs with -nw in those instances where
> > DISPLAY is set. Alternatives is not buying much other than a lot of
> > complications.
>
> The "alternatives" stuff would by handled by the rpm %post script, so
> users wouldn't have to know about it.  Whichever of the two packages
> you installed last becomes the default (assuming they don't conflict
> as Jesse requested).  That seems reasonable to me, but I'm interested
> in learning what the standard practice for Fedora is.
>

I thought alternatives had a priority mechanism where the highest
priority link is used.  emacs-x could be made higher priority than
emacs-nox and would be used if it is installed.

 - Ian