emacs and /etc/alternatives

Frank Ch. Eigler fche at redhat.com
Fri Mar 9 16:41:57 UTC 2007


Chip Coldwell <coldwell at redhat.com> writes:

> [...]
> > Exactly.  This is a change without a purpose.  The existing solution
> > works perfectly well: it ain't broken, so don't fix it.
> 
> It is broken in the sense that rpmlint pukes on the current emacs spec 
> file

Perhaps that's a problem better solved in rpmlint proper.

> and a lot of the jiggery-pokery in there is done to support the two
> different versions of emacs and the wrapper script+symlinks
> currently being used.

Is that jiggery-pokery in need of effortful upkeep?

- FChE




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