On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 03:26:11PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > Hmmm, according to > > http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/editors/emacs20.html emacs20 > > does depend on xlib which depends on xfree86-common. > According to dselect it doesn't. The Depends line I showed you was copied > directly from it. The dselect line apparently doesn't wordwrap very well: Package: emacs20 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 26299 Maintainer: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 20.3-7 Provides: emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader, www-browser Depends: emacsen-common, liblockfile0, libc6, liblockfile0 (>= 0.1-1), libncurses4, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) Suggests: emacs20-el Conflicts: emacs20-el (<< 20.3-7), w3-el Description: The GNU Emacs editor. GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. It certainly seems easier to have only the one binary package (less bother figuring out why X doesn't work and remembering to update whenever X works) and one might argue that at a mere 3 megs the X libs are inconsequential when one is installing Emacs. Navindra, I suggest you file a wishlist bug against Emacs if it's really important to you (search around to see if you can find previous discussion first). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/