Re: XEmacs and LDAP
>>>>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:06:14 -0800 (PST), Dave Baker <dave@dsb3.com> said:
>> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:40:50AM +0000, Edouard Lafargue wrote:
>> >
>> > I noticed that xemacs (xemacs-21-gtk in my case) seems to have
>> > trouble with LDAP and eudc: is it because the version included
>> > in unstable was compiled without support for LDAP ? Wouldn't it
>> > be a good thing to include it ? Getting LDAP completion when I
>> > send emails would be neat.
Dave> It would be nice to have, but is it good to have a library
Dave> dependency for all other users of emacs who doesn't want or
Dave> need LDAP?
Dave> I find it concerning that many variants of many packages are
Dave> cluttering up th packages list. With that in mind I have to
Dave> consider it more prudent to:
Dave> 1) keep the package as 'slim' as possible (i.e. no LDAP
Dave> dependency)
Dave> and
Dave> 2) put a ccouple of comments in the appropriate debian/* files
Dave> to let
Dave> people apt-get source them and rebuild with the extra options
Dave> they want/need more easily.
The xemacs (not gtk variants) depend on libldap2, installed size 484.
I don't really think that's too onerous when you consider you've
already installed:
xemacs21-nomule 4563
xemacs21-bin 434
xemacs21-support 8508
xemacs21-basesupport 38117
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51622
(and that's assuming the most basic setup with no mule. with mule you
add another 14276.)
So to simplify my life and other's lives I just compile with ldap.
Jim
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