emacs and /etc/alternatives

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Mar 9 18:11:24 UTC 2007


On Friday 09 March 2007 13:03:07 Chip Coldwell wrote:
> The user can still "alias emacs=xemacs" or put a wrapper script in
> $HOME/bin.  Functionally, the /etc/alternatives is only setting a
> systemwide default, precisely the same thing the systemwide wrapper script
> does, but does it in a standardized way instead of making up our own
> per-package standard.

And I think neither of these are suitable solutions for something that is 
really a user preference not a site preference.  But *shrug* I just hate this 
problem.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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