Jesse Keating writes: > On Friday 09 March 2007 12:56:01 Chip Coldwell wrote: > > I really don't understand the reaction alternatives is getting. Is it > > really preferable to have every package create its own script, using its > > own environment variables and its own priorities, than to use a common > > infracstructure like alternatives? At least once the SA has learned > > alternatives, he knows what to expect from the different packages that use > > it. > > Forgive my ignorance, but isn't alternatives a sitewide thing, where > preference for emacs vs emacs-nox might be a per user thing? alternatives just provides a master symlink called "emacs" pointing to emacs-foo, emacs-bar, and do on. You can still invoke emacs-foo and emacs-bar directly. Andrew. -- 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
