On Thursday 08 March 2007 10:02am, 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? I wouldn't want to see "Conflicts:" in any packages, at all. I like that Red Hat distros and Fedora can install all packages simultaneously. -- Lamont Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] NOTE: All messages from this email address should be digitally signed with my 0xDC0DD409 GPG key. It is available on the pgp.mit.edu keyserver as well as other keyservers that sync with MIT's.
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