emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:50:57PM -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> There is nothing wrong with rpmlint, it is properly complaining about
> two packages which both claim to own the same file, that's a conflict
> and we don't want conflicts.

It's not a conflict if the file is identical.

> To get us to a situation where there can be two versions of emacs (a
> reasonable goal) we have the following choices:
> * have a package which owns /usr/bin/emacs and install a script to start
> the preferred version. emacs and emacs-nox both require this package.

What, like, say, "emacs-common"?

> I think the first solution is preferable, a master package, plus there
> are many files in emacs which would be shared between X version and the
> nox version, these can all go in the master package.

Revolutionary! :)


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