emacs and /etc/alternatives

Miloslav Trmac mitr at redhat.com
Thu Mar 8 21:52:33 UTC 2007


Warren Togami napsal(a):
> If both are functionally similar, yet the script solution avoids changes
> to the filesystem *and* is much simpler, why not stick to the script
> solution?
If you completely ignore the original purpose of alternatives and focus
only on the mechanism, following a few symlinks set up by alternatives
is actually both more effective and simpler than starting bash to
execute the script.
	Mirek




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