From: Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo text editors
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 03:39:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86znhboh0s.fsf@killr.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030910211309.677bfbde.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> (C. Brewer's message of "Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:13:09 -0700")
"C. Brewer" <cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> writes:
> Rather than make Gentoo more like Debian-like (ick!), wouldn't it be simpler
> to set the ebuild for clisp to /usr/bin/editor and have src_unpack do a
> ln -s $EDITOR /usr/bin/editor, which would give a specific editor while
I dunno... doesn't seem like an elegant solution to me.
> I'm not trying to anger anyone with this, but when you starting picking up
> good stuff from other places, chances are you will pick up their
> shortcomings as well.
I'm interested in what those short coming might be. I think I may
find time in the next few days to scope what it might take to port
the alternatives system to Gentoo.
Matt
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-10 8:38 [gentoo-dev] gentoo text editors Matthew Kennedy
2003-09-10 9:12 ` Seemant Kulleen
2003-09-11 1:07 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-09-11 2:08 ` Brian Friday
2003-09-11 2:25 ` Brian Friday
2003-09-11 3:54 ` Marius Mauch
2003-09-11 8:44 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-09-11 4:13 ` C. Brewer
2003-09-11 7:54 ` donnie berkholz
2003-09-11 18:06 ` C. Brewer
2003-09-11 8:39 ` Matthew Kennedy [this message]
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