emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:35:28 Chip Coldwell wrote:
> The "--nox" cli option already exists as "-nw".  But that's not the
> problem.  The problem is that emacs-22 is now linked to the entire
> GNOME infrastructure, so if you install the GUI emacs, you suck in a
> lot of stuff.  So if your intention is to run a headless server, you
> prefer emacs-nox.

obviously you need an emacs-gnome subpackage that introduces the gnome 
capabilities, while the emacs main package provides you with emacs, without 
gnome.  This may take significant upstream work, but so be it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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