From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17987 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Sep 2003 08:39:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 15740 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2003 08:39:48 -0000 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <86pti9ox69.fsf@killr.ath.cx> <1063185172.22714.50.camel@localhost> <868yowp1yf.fsf@killr.ath.cx> <20030910211309.677bfbde.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> From: Matthew Kennedy Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 03:39:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030910211309.677bfbde.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> (C. Brewer's message of "Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:13:09 -0700") Message-ID: <86znhboh0s.fsf@killr.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo text editors X-Archives-Salt: 9d3bf5a3-fcc7-412a-9bbf-29fa0e95454e X-Archives-Hash: bd104476d139d9c63110ba82a4e78e37 "C. Brewer" 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 -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list