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Re: Provides: emacsen ?



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On 11 Jun 1998, Rob Tillotson wrote:

> > Would not have been easier to keep the name "emacs" for emacs19, but
> > allowing other packages also to provide "emacs"?
> 
> No, because the old "emacs" doesn't provide the same capabilities as
> what is now called "emacsen",

The old emacs does not provide *any* capability in a libc6 system.
It just core dumps ;-)

So this could have been a good argument to keep the name untouched
(i.e. emacs == emacs19).

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