emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 09 March 2007 12:56:01 Chip Coldwell wrote:
> I really don't understand the reaction alternatives is getting.  Is it
> really preferable to have every package create its own script, using its
> own environment variables and its own priorities, than to use a common
> infracstructure like alternatives?  At least once the SA has learned
> alternatives, he knows what to expect from the different packages that use
> it.

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't alternatives a sitewide thing, where 
preference for emacs vs emacs-nox might be a per user thing?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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