Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting John Galt (galt@inconnu.isu.edu):
[...]
> > > > 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.

I've just installed xterm on a system without X. It's a bit tricky using
it because I can't write the cookie with xauth (absent). Perhaps
"unequivocally" is like "surely" when used in a proof.

Cheers,

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