emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Andrew Haley]

Jesse Keating writes:
 > On Friday 09 March 2007 12:27:11 Chip Coldwell wrote:
 > > Then I suggested dropping the emacs-nox package.
 > >
 > > That met with strenous objections.
 > 
 > Where?  I saw one objection.
 > 
 > You could also keep the emacs-nox package and just name it emacs-nox.  If 
 > you're purposefully setting up a box without X libs and with emacs-nox, you 
 > probably are capable of running emacs-nox instead of 'emacs'.

Huh?  How would you even know it was there?  You may not have setp up
the box yourself, you may not even have used a Red Hat box before.

Andrew.