emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Carl Worth]

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:17:40 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> The user can set PREFERRED_EMACS to x or nox or kde or wx or whatever
> interfaces the future GNU emacs supports.  If its installed on this
> system, it'll be invoked, else the script falls back to looking for an
> emacs to run.
>
> If there were a multitude of options, you could even set your own
> fallback order.

And people have complained about /etc/alternatives as being "unclean"
somehow?

What possible benefit is there to re-inventing all of its
functionality on a package-by-package basis like this?

-Carl
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