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Re: Intent package mule2 and custom-mule (Important for emacs (lisp) package maintainers)



At 20 Oct 1999 10:29:01 +0100,
Gunnar Evermann <ge204@eng.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> > Yes, you are right. But XEmacs is too big for poor machies.
> > And we do not need any X extensions of XEmacs when working on console
> > , terminal emulators or so.
> 
> You can build XEmacs without support for any window system, thus
> making it noticeably more 'lightweight'.

This is policy violation, isn't it?

From Debian Policy Manual
| 5.8 Programs for the X Window System
|
| Some programs can be configured with or without support for the X Window
| System. Typically, binaries produced with support for X will need the X
| shared libraries to run.
| 
| Such programs should be configured with X support, and should declare a
| dependency on xlib6g (which contains X shared libraries). Users who wish to
| use the program can install just the relatively small xfree86-common and
| xlib6g packages, and do not need to install the whole of X.
| 
| Do not create two versions (one with X support and one without) of your
| package.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI


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