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Re: Removing Package Dependencies



-> > > > This morning (CET) I run an update and performed an upgrade by
-> > > > dselect with sid.  Ther, emacs was required.
-> > > 
-> > > Don't worry your not going insane, the version of cxref you were trying to
-> > > install depends on emacsen-common.
-> > > 
-> > 
-> > well, why does cxref depend on emacsen-common?  Is there any reason?
-> > Or is there any policy saying that every user must use emacs? ,-)
-> > For me, *personally*, emacs just consumes a hell lot of space....
-> 
-> Chill, it doesn't depend on emacs, it depends on emacsen-common, which
-> is a _very_small_ package.

small or big, I also don't like the idea needing emacs package just because
of few files (which probably won't be used with vim). 

.el files should probably be split to another package (cxref-emcas?) if it
is not possible to install them without emacsen-common, IMHO.

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