emacs and /etc/alternatives

Chip Coldwell coldwell at redhat.com
Fri Mar 9 18:11:06 UTC 2007


On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> 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.

That leads to a circular dependency.  The shell script requires that one 
of the two "emacs" and "emacs-nox" packages be installed.  If emacs-common 
requires one of those two, and they each require emacs-common ....

Chip

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