On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:01:16 Andrew Haley wrote: > > Mmm, but that surely means that if you type "emacs foo.c" it'll just > > say "command not found". > > Which leads us back to the other question, why can't there just be one, that > defaults to x if you have x, but alternatively does --nox as a cli option. > Package 'emacs' provides just the text method, package 'emacs-x' allows for > gui or some such without replacing /usr/bin/emacs. Just thinking out loud > here. The "--nox" cli option already exists as "-nw". But that's not the problem. The problem is that emacs-22 is now linked to the entire GNOME infrastructure, so if you install the GUI emacs, you suck in a lot of stuff. So if your intention is to run a headless server, you prefer emacs-nox. But in both cases, you expect to be able to run "emacs foo.c" from the bash prompt and it will DTRT. So /usr/bin/emacs *must* be either a symlink or a wrapper script (currently, it's a symlink to a wrapper script). Chip -- Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc 978-392-2426 -- 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
