emacs and /etc/alternatives

Fri Mar 9 17:09:17 UTC 2007

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:51:50PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:12:31AM -0500, Chip Coldwell wrote:
> > 
> > Well, then I guess my preference would be to eliminate the -nox subpackage 
> > from Fedora.  We can continue to support it for RHEL, since there will be 
> > headless servers, etc, that don't need all the GUI infrastructure.
> 
> What! There couldn't be headless servers or X-less workstations running
> fedora? This seems to go in the opposite direction of sane objectives
> for fedora, and also there has been some very interesting innovations that 
> should simplify installing fedora in such setups (say the minimal or 
> server spin).

Not to mention blind users for whom emacs without a GUI could *be* 
their desktop environment.