On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:02 -0500, Chip Coldwell wrote: > Currently, there are two versions of GNU emacs that can be installed: > emacs and emacs-nox. The latter runs in a terminal emulator, the > former uses X windows. I'm cleaning up the emacs spec file to meet > the Fedora review requirements, and I think the right thing to do > would be to have > > /usr/bin/emacs-22.0.95 > /usr/bin/emacs-22.0.95-nox > /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs > /etc/alternatives/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs-22.0.95[-nox] > > In other words, let the /etc/alternatives symlink select which of the > two versions runs by default. > > Is this the right thing to do? > If so, should the emacs-nox package have a "Conflicts: emacs" and > vice-versa? > If the two packages conflict, they cannot be installed in parallel, and thus you don't need the alternatives mechanism to pick one... But thats probably the best solution: just let the two packages conflict. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
