[Fedora-packaging] Re: Packaging emacs modes: EL/F compatibility

[Michel Salim]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 07:33:45PM -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately RHEL's emacs / emacs-nox do not seem to provide
>> emacs(bin), so in that case, since RPM does not allow for either-or
>> dependencies, what would the best solution be?
>>
>> 1. Requires: emacs and disenfranchise emacs-nox users
>> 2. Requires: /usr/bin/emacs and draw the ire of yum users having to
>> download filelists.
>
> /usr/bin/ is always downloaded.
>
Ah, so one gets that for free? (the guideline should really mention
that). I'll wait for an official word on the bug report,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466580

but if nothing comes up in the next few days, I might just do that.

Thanks,

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