emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 14:44:21 Chip Coldwell wrote:
> In that case, I guess my preference is to have the two packages
> conflict with each other.  As has already been mentioned, if you
> install the GUI emacs, you can still run it in a terminal by
> specifying the "-nw" switch.  The only reason to install emacs-nox is
> to avoid sucking in all the dependencies, so you should never install
> it if you already have the GUI emacs.

Except that we don't allow for conflicting packages in Fedora.  Extremely 
horrible user experience if they happen to select both or with a glob to have 
a ugly "CONFLICT" popup.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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