Jerry Amundson (jamundso@xxxxxxxxx) said: > It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar > functions to be installed on a single system at the same time. For > example, many systems have several text editors installed at once. > This gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use a dif- > ferent editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program to make > a good choice of editor to invoke if the user has not specified a par- > ticular preference. > > The alternatives system aims to solve this problem. Not for something like $EDITOR, which is a per-user setting anyway. I'm not sure why a dependency on vim-minimal is truly that bad. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
