emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 12:50 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> Here is the summary as I see it:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> * use alternatives (yuck!), I don't think it's appropriate for this
> purpose and its just plain nasty, but it solves the file conflict
> problem.
> 
> 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.

Ugh.  Is that the rpmlint warning that this is all about?  You already
have an emacs-common package for files shared between emacs with x and
emacs without x.  Move the /usr/bin/emacs script into the emacs-common
package and have done already.

-Toshio
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