On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Ville Skyttä ville.skytta@iki.fi 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.
Thanks,