Arch Linux

Problem:

The PKGBUILD of the Ctags package sets a conflict with
the emacs package, which means that if you install
emacs, you can't use any other editor's ctags feature
because almost all of the editors other than emacs use
the ctags file with the "classic" format created by
exuberant ctags. It means that virtually every editor
using ctags conflicts with emacs, if you would like to
use it for serious development.

Possible solutions:

Install the exuberant ctags executable and manual file
under the name ctags-exuberant (also)

or

Force ctags to only install 'ctags' and force emacs to
only install 'etags', and not install/destroy its
counterparts. But I don't know whether emacs uses the
executable named 'ctags' or it is using 'etags' only.
It needs an emacs expert to decide...

or

Simply use exuberant ctags as 'etags' for emacs also
(because it can generate etags-style tags file). Ctags
installs itself as etags by default too. And before the
install we simply ask a question, like this "With
installing ctags you are about to overwriting the
emacs's etags, which is normaly doesn't hurt, but..."
It also needs an emacs expert to decide.

or

...

All in all I think we have to allow to exist ctags AND
emacs paralel without a conflict somehow...