This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: [ITP] xemacs: A powerful, highly customizable open source texteditor and application development system
Joe Buehler writes:
> can provide them separately?
> Can anyone comment on how other distributions deal with this issue?
Debian uses the alternatives mechanism to deal with the ctags/etags
issue:
$ update-alternatives --display etags
etags - status is auto.
link currently points to /usr/bin/etags.emacs21
/usr/bin/etags.emacs21 - priority 24
slave etags.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/etags.1emacs21.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/etags.emacs21.
Wrt, the emacs packages themselves, there's the virtual emacsen package that
an emacs can provide
$ grep-available -s Package -F Provides emacsen
Package: octave2.1-emacsen
Package: xemacs21-gnome-mule-canna-wnn
Package: emacs21-nox
Package: xemacs21-nomule
Package: xemacs21-gnome-nomule
Package: emacs20
Package: emacs21
Package: xemacs21-gnome-mule
Package: emacs20-dl
Package: xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn
Package: octave2.0-emacsen
Package: xemacs21-mule
HTH,
Jan.
--
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org