emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:52:33PM +0100, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> > 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.

The overhead of bash vs. a symlink is negligible when we're talking about
launching *emacs*. The real difference is: one is trivial and
self-contained, whereas the other relies on an whole infrastructure.


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