emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Andrew Haley]

John Dennis writes:
 > 
 > 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.

That's an OK solution.

 > * 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.

That's an OK solution too.

Andrew.