emacs and /etc/alternatives

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Mar 9 18:32:59 UTC 2007


On Friday 09 March 2007 13:27:39 Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.

If /usr/bin/emacs is exactly the same across the two packages, how does it 
decide what to launch?  On my rawhide install, /usr/bin/emacs is a symlink 
to /usr/bin/emacs-22.0.93.  I can't imagine the emacs-nox package provides a 
symlink to /usr/bin/emacs-22.0.93.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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