Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL]

[Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net>]

Quoting John Galt:
> According to the dependencies, Xemacs requires X just as much as
> Afterstep, Enlightenment, Xterm, Freeciv, and Ale do.  Xemacs
> depends on xlib6g, xterm depends on xlib6g (and ncurses and libc6 to
> fully disclose the dependencies, but neither of these have anything
> to do with X), xterm unequivocally depends on X, xlib6g is the only
> portion of X that xterm depends on, so xemacs must therefore also
> depend on X, QED.

	You mean that xemacs21_foo_bar.deb requires X.

	It is entirely possible to build an xemacs21-tty package, much
as the vim maintainer has.

	X support in Xemacs is far more recent than the name "Xemacs",
which is often misleading.

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