Re: [PATCH] Re: etags name collision.

[Ergus]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 06:51:58PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:46:35 +0200
> > From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > >I'm opposed to dropping stuff just because we can.  If you want to add
> > >an option not to install ctags if another version is installed
> > >(similarly to what we do with movemail), that's fine.
> >
> > What about the attached patch?
>
> The code should test whether another version of 'ctags' is already
> installed, and if so, that it isn't our 'ctags'.  _Then_ we could
> default to not installing our 'ctags'.  Your proposal doesn't make
> that test, so please add it.
>
> Thanks.
I do this tests like with mailutils and movemail:

(ctags --version) >/dev/null 2>&1 || with_ctags=no

Isn't this enough?