Sorry if I misunderstood what the case was delivering.
Still not sure exactly why we're doing a no-x version from a business
perspective (and I think JCarlson's issue is a business one as well),
but architecturally I see no further issues.
-- Garrett
Bart Smaalders wrote:
> 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
>
