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Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?



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Paul Scott wrote:
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> On May 2, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Harry Rickards wrote:
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>> John Hasler wrote:
>>> Harry Rickards writes:
>>>> Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can
>>>> emacs do that a separate tool can't do? Surely if emacs is more than an
>>>> editor, it doesn't follow Doug McIlroy's UNIX philosophy
>>>
>>> GNU's Not Unix.
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>> Linux != GNU
> 
> 
> Meaning??
> 
> GNU is an OS,  Linux is a kernel.
> 
> Unfortunately popular usage has led to Linux incorrectly meaning
> GNU/Linux and even more.
> 

Meaning that John Hasler was saying that GNU Emacs shouldn't follow a
UNIX Philosophy because GNU's Not UNIX. I was saying that Linux != GNU,
and as this is a Debian list, most of us probably use GNU Emacs on Linux.

Also, although GNU Emacs was written by GNU and GNU's Not UNIX, I think
(someone correct me if I'm wrong here) it was originally written for UNIX.


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Many thanks
Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)

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