emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 16:31:23 Chip Coldwell wrote:
> 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?

One would hope that you can do this in such a way that you could 
install 'emacs' and not drag in gnome, and it would do text mode only, and 
then install emacs-gnome which gives emacs the ability to do gui.  Perhaps 
emacs supplies a /usr/bin/emacs script that defaults to /usr/bin/emacs-tui, 
and if you try to pass it -x it will note the lack of /usr/bin/emacs-gnome 
and tell you no, but if you install emacs-gnome subpackage, the libraries and 
deps are then installed and emacs -x would launch the gui emacs.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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