emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Chip Coldwell]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> Or the even more preferable packaging of emacs that allows the x/gtk 
> functionality to be split into a subpackage and callable with an option.

I really don't understand the difference between two packages

emacs: with GTK+, etc.
emacs-nox: without GTK+, etc.

and two packages:

emacs-gnome: with GTK+, etc.
emacs: without GTK+, etc.

Aside from the renaming, how is this different from the present
situation?

Chip

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