On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:11:00PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> writes:
> > > In the case of emacs20:
> > bah. The binary is 3 MB large. The package is 28 MB large. You could
> > leave the X-capable binary in emacs20 and move everything else,
> > including a terminal only emacs-20.7 binary to emacs20-base or
> > emacs20-text or something like that. Or you could add one more package
> > and have emacs20, emacs20-common and emacs20-text.
> This is one of the most constructive suggestions I have ever
> heard on this list. If it were a proposal I would second it
> instantly.
It doesn't need to be a proposal, someone (Rob Browning?) just has
to do it...
(Rob: discussion on policy about standard packages using xlibs etc; atm
xlibs is optional priority, potato and earlier had xlib6g as standard
priority; this means emacs20 should either not be standard or not depend
on xlibs (or xlibs should be raised back to standard))
Cheers,
aj
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