Bruce Park <bpark79@hotmail.com> [2002-10-13 18:45:55 -0400]: > Does anyone know where I can find the package for emacs-nox20.7-1? I looked > on the main site for debian but I couldn't find it. To the best of my knowledge that naming convention is a Redhat naming scheme. I don't think Debian offers a stripped down emacs without dependencies on the X libraries. You would probably need to build it yourself without those dependencies if that is your need. But here is how I would go about trying to find information about this topic. If you search for 'emacs' on the debian site with a distribution set to 'any' then you will see a list of emacs packages. All of those are available to install. Go there and do that and learn what packages are already available. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Emacs has its own policy page. For more information I would look there. This should give background as to the rationale behind things. This may or may not cover the topic you care about. But if it does then you should know about it. http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debian-emacs-policy I would check the bug tracking system for any bugs against emacs in this area. If someone considers this a deficiency then there might be a bug logged against it with a thread of email discussion it attached to the bug report. You asked about emacs20 so I list that but I personally have upgraded to and use emacs21 these days. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=emacs20 And last I would search the debian-emacsen archives for references to this since I would expect that it would have been discussed there previously. It is a low volume list so that should not take long. http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/ If you think this is a serious deficiency then you can log a report in the BTS. That is one way to influence the direction of packages. And, of course, discussion here is always good. HTH Bob
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