[csw-maintainers] emacs_nox depends on CSWx11 and friends

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Fri Mar 12 19:01:55 CET 2010


Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> I've been recently asked to ask emacs_nox on some machines. ....
>>...
>> It seems to depend on CSWfconfig, CSWftype2, CSWlibx11, etc.  How hard
>> would be to eliminate these dependencies?
>>
>
> I'm not an emacs person, but just a thought:
> while I'd guess x11 should be removed... perhaps the other stuff is in
> there to allow for full TeX and/or fancy printing support.
>
> That being said.. it doesnt look like our CSWemacsnox package
> "directly" uses any of those libraries,so perhaps they are spurious
> dependencies after all?

More or less spurious they are. In the current version of Emacs
autotooling it's a real PITA to obtain a "pure" nox; I tried but no
more.

When I'll use the alternative system that we have at last, looking in
this mess again I'll try.

-- 
Peter


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