On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:27:44PM -0500, John Dennis wrote: > 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? > > My first question is why we have both an X capable and non-X capable > version. Good question, I guess emacs-nox has the benefit of not pulling in half of the X11 libs and is therefore well suited for an X-less minimal system. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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