On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Michel Salim <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> wrote: > >>> A related question: why emacs(bin) ? >> >> Most elisp packages work fine with either emacs or emacs-nox installed. >> emacs(bin) is provided by both of them, and requiring it in lisp packages >> where appropriate is helpful so that the full featured (and much more >> dependency heavy) emacs package is not pulled in in setups that are fine >> with -nox, such as headless servers etc. >> > Unfortunately RHEL's emacs / emacs-nox do not seem to provide > emacs(bin), so in that case, since RPM does not allow for either-or > dependencies, what would the best solution be? > > 1. Requires: emacs and disenfranchise emacs-nox users > 2. Requires: /usr/bin/emacs and draw the ire of yum users having to > download filelists. > 3. Get RHEL to fix its packages? 4.x/5.x are still under support and could get updates. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
