emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Chip Coldwell]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:

> 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.

Then that brings us full circle back to the symbolic link and
/etc/alternatives, because we have two packages that install
/usr/bin/emacs.

In that case, I think /etc/alternatives is the way to go, since at
least the symlink management is automatic.

Chip

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