[Fedora-packaging] Should vim-X11 conflict with vim-enhanced ?

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Wed Jan 16 09:16:07 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:11:47AM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue January 15 2008, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> > 4) Use wrapper scripts in
> > /usr/bin/{vim,vimdiff,ex,view,rview,rvim,vimtutor} that first look for the
> > -X11 executables, then -enhanced.  Maybe something like:
> 
> Why is this better than using alternatives? Using alternatives recommended in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Conflicts#head-f0b97bf1035a16427332c84bfef0f2b63f1c3223
> (Binary Name Conflicts).

This is only a suggestion, and it is right like that, it is better to
avoid guidelines on that and let the packager choose what he prefers in
such cases.

--
Pat




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