emacs and /etc/alternatives

Chip Coldwell coldwell at redhat.com
Thu Mar 8 18:43:26 UTC 2007


On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Ian Burrell wrote:
> 
> 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.

You're right.  So that's an argument in favor of using the
/etc/alternatives stuff.

Chip

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