emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Andrew Haley]

John Dennis writes:
 > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:00 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Jesse Keating writes:
 > >  > On Friday 09 March 2007 12:39:16 Andrew Haley wrote:
 > >  > > Me too.  I'd like to continue to use Fedora on headless servers.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Specifically with out the few megs that X libs would require?  You can still 
 > >  > run emacs with the option to not do graphical.
 > > 
 > > I suppose so, but it would be odd after installing suddenly to
 > > discover a bunch of X libraries.  
 > > 
 > >  -- "What the hell are these libraries for?  I didn't ask for them!"
 > > 
 > >  -- "Well, it's all because of the way rpmlint works."
 > > 
 > >  -- "Sorry?  Say that again..."
 > 
 > No, you're missing the point. This is not about rpmlint, the issue is
 > two packages cannot own the same file.

I thought they could, as long as the files were the identical.  And,
at the present time, the file /usr/bin/emacs does not cause a
conflict.

As fasr as I've been told, the problem is that rpmlint gets confused,
not that there really is a conflict.

Andrew.