Re: Emacs on non-X machine
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 03:26:11PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > Hmmm, according to
> > http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/editors/emacs20.html emacs20
> > does depend on xlib which depends on xfree86-common.
> According to dselect it doesn't. The Depends line I showed you was copied
> directly from it.
The dselect line apparently doesn't wordwrap very well:
Package: emacs20
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: editors
Installed-Size: 26299
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Version: 20.3-7
Provides: emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader, www-browser
Depends: emacsen-common, liblockfile0, libc6, liblockfile0 (>= 0.1-1),
libncurses4, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
Suggests: emacs20-el
Conflicts: emacs20-el (<< 20.3-7), w3-el
Description: The GNU Emacs editor.
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
It certainly seems easier to have only the one binary package (less
bother figuring out why X doesn't work and remembering to update
whenever X works) and one might argue that at a mere 3 megs the X
libs are inconsequential when one is installing Emacs.
Navindra, I suggest you file a wishlist bug against Emacs if it's
really important to you (search around to see if you can find
previous discussion first).
--
Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
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