Subject: Re: emacs troubles

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 96 22:14 PDT

> emacs is an editor with text/graphic interface
> so u can compile emacs with out graphic-x interface

Generally, if there is an option to compile a program with an X interface
as well as its text interface, we do so for Debian. This requires _only_
that the (reasonably small) X runtime library be installed if you don't
plan to use X on that system - no servers or X applications are required.

The alternative was maintaining X and non-X versions of a dozen programs,
which was a hassle and error-prone. I'm sorry that we caused confusion in
this case.

I think if you had used "dselect" instead of "dpkg" it would have told you
what package provided elf-x11r6lib when you selected emacs. This assumes
that you had a complete copy of the "Packages" file from our FTP archive.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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From: Boris Beletsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 13:38:50 +0300 (IDT)

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

|>Date: Wed, 4 Sep 96 22:14 PDT
|>From: Bruce Perens <[email-masked]>
|>To: Me <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
|>Cc: Debain <[email-masked]>
|>Subject: Re: emacs troubles
|>
|>> emacs is an editor with text/graphic interface
|>> so u can compile emacs with out graphic-x interface
|>
|>Generally, if there is an option to compile a program with an X interface
|>as well as its text interface, we do so for Debian. This requires _only_
|>that the (reasonably small) X runtime library be installed if you don't
|>plan to use X on that system - no servers or X applications are required.

i mean thas u can 1) install the shared libs 2) compile emacs without usin'
xshared libs
thks u

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