On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007 16:31:23 Chip Coldwell wrote: > > I really don't understand the difference between two packages > > > > emacs: with GTK+, etc. > > emacs-nox: without GTK+, etc. > > > > and two packages: > > > > emacs-gnome: with GTK+, etc. > > emacs: without GTK+, etc. > > > > Aside from the renaming, how is this different from the present > > situation? > > One would hope that you can do this in such a way that you could > install 'emacs' and not drag in gnome, and it would do text mode only, and > then install emacs-gnome which gives emacs the ability to do gui. Perhaps > emacs supplies a /usr/bin/emacs script that defaults to /usr/bin/emacs-tui, > and if you try to pass it -x it will note the lack of /usr/bin/emacs-gnome > and tell you no, but if you install emacs-gnome subpackage, the libraries and > deps are then installed and emacs -x would launch the gui emacs. What you describe reverses the default from GUI to terminal. Right now: if you install emacs it drags in gtk/gdk/atk/etc, but you can invoke it with "-nw" and it will run in a terminal. Or you can install emacs-nox which does not drag in gtk/gdk/atk/etc, and it will only run in a terminal. So is your recommendation rename emacs to emacs-gnome, rename emacs-nox to emacs, and add a "-x" command line switch to emacs (renamed from emacs-nox) whose purpose is to emit an error message? 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
