Garrett D'Amore wrote: > On a separate note, its unclear to me whether SUNWemacs-nox is a sound > approach for Solaris. > > It presents potential difficulties, as there is no precedent (that I'm > aware of) for having the same binary program (/usr/bin/emacs) > distributed by different packages. It potentially raises challenges for > patching, and other sustaining efforts, and I'm not entirely certain > that this has been thoroughly considered yet. >
That's not what the proposal specified: > > > The /usr/bin/emacs command is a shell script, delivered by > SUNWemacs. This script execs the "best" version of emacs > installed on the system, where best is defined as: > > 1) If /usr/bin/emacs-x exists, exec it. > 2) If /usr/bin/emacs-nox exists, exec it. > 3) If no emacs executables are present, issue > an error to that effect and exit(1). - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
