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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!wuff.mayn.de!wuff.franken.de!altair.franken.de!token From: token@altair.franken.de (Matthias Buelow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Emacs Date: 20 Apr 1997 23:16:41 GMT Organization: void * Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5je84p$9fd$1@wuff.mayn.de> References: <slrn5kvtrt.4ec.beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no> <5j4i1p$sjc$14@easystreet03> <5jdk3u$9a9@news.webspan.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.franken.de Keywords: eight megabytes and constantly swapping Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39413 In article <5jdk3u$9a9@news.webspan.net>, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@webspan.net> wrote: >That's because emacs, when you compile it, checks if you have X >installed and if so uses it. So most packages we pump out assume you >have X installed too. Sorry ;-/ Until we get `soft dependancies' >(i.e. not loading a library until a specific symbol is referenced) >it won't go away. How about providing two binary executables of emacs in the package, one linked against X11 and the other w/o X11 support, or if that is too much, just provide another package that contains a seperate character-mode-only or X11 (depending on what's in the default pkg) executable? Not everybody wants to recompile emacs on his own (and that's what the packages are for, aren't they?). I remember vaguely that an old Gnu/Linux Slackware distribution I once installed handled it in such a way and think this is a Good Thing [tm]. -- --token *The daemon is free!* ``Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my harddrive.'' - Arthur C. Clarke, imagining the first words of HAL