Re: emacs and /etc/alternatives

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On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:00 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Jesse Keating writes:
>  > On Friday 09 March 2007 12:39:16 Andrew Haley wrote:
>  > > Me too.  I'd like to continue to use Fedora on headless servers.
>  > 
>  > Specifically with out the few megs that X libs would require?  You can still 
>  > run emacs with the option to not do graphical.
> 
> I suppose so, but it would be odd after installing suddenly to
> discover a bunch of X libraries.  
> 
>  -- "What the hell are these libraries for?  I didn't ask for them!"
> 
>  -- "Well, it's all because of the way rpmlint works."
> 
>  -- "Sorry?  Say that again..."

No, you're missing the point. This is not about rpmlint, the issue is
two packages cannot own the same file. That restriction is a good thing.
All rpmlint is doing is enforcing the sane requirement that rpm files do
not conflict.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis@xxxxxxxxxx>

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