Re: Etch: emacs or emac21?

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>:
> 
>  In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'.  Now in Etch we have also
>  `emacs', but the difference between the two is not clear to me.  What should I
>  install in order to use the Emacs editor, `emacs' or `emacs21'?

I don't have "emacs" (etch).  I do have:

(0) heretic /home/keeling/procmail_ pkgs emacs | egrep '^i'
i   emacs21                         - The GNU Emacs editor
i A emacs21-bin-common              - The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architectur
i A emacs21-common                  - The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architectur
i A emacsen-common                  - Common facilities for all emacsen

# alias pkgs='aptitude search'

FYI, "emacs" is a metapackage:

   Provides: editor, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader

and installing "emacs" may drag in stuff you may not have intended to get.


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