xjed package should provide jed via alternatives

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Tue Oct 23 17:43:31 UTC 2007


* G. Milde <g.milde at quantentunnel.de> [2007-10-23 10:38]:

> xjed can be started without X via a simple wrapper script like::
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
>   unset DISPLAY
>   exec xjed $*
> 
> I have it here as `/usr/local/bin/jed`, however IMO, the xjed package
> should provide the `jed` command via the alternatives system.
> 
> Idea: 
> 
> Package xjed should:
> 
>  * save the above wrapper as `xjed-without-x` on a sensible place.
>  * register it as /usr/bin/jed  with alternatives
> 
> Package jed should:
> 
>  * save the jed executable under a different name
>  * register it as /usr/bin/jed with a higher priority than xjed-without-x 

This is an excellent proposal.  Would you implement it?

-- 
Rafael



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