Re: Removing Package Dependencies
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:18:58PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> * Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2003-02-18 11:57]:
> > Now, actually the changelog is not all that verbose here, but the gist
> > of it appears to be that cxref contains .el files which need the
> > framework in emacsen-common to be installed correctly. emacsen-common
> > consumes a whole 78K of disk space once installed.
>
> apt-cache show cxref
> ...
> Version: 1.5d-2
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), emacsen, emacsen-common (>= 1.4.14)
> *******
>
> dselect wants to install emacs for this reason. emacsen-common was no
> problem...
Oh, I seem to be one version behind. See #180876. You might want to
consider filing a bug; if all else fails the .el stuff may have to be
split into a separate package. It would be nice if it could use emacs
only if it's already installed, though.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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