Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've always been a vim user, so I've never installed emacs on my machines. > However, I have a need for it now and when I went to install it, discovered > that it has all kinds of x-related dependencies (xfree86-common, xlibs, > libxaw7) > > Does anyone know what the correlation is between text-based emacs and x? > (this is the emacs20 package from woody -- NOT xemacs21) Is this something > I can safely override (probably not) or work around and still use the debian > package system? > > Suggestions welcome. >
I'd suggest compiling from source if you don't want to waste the extra space from the xlibs. Compiling from source (got it from ftp.gnu.org) took less than 5 minutes on the dev server at work (a solaris box that's full of vi users :-) since there's not a whole lot of code in emacs that needs compiling. Shouldn't take too much longer on a Linux desktop. Otherwise, just install the xlibs and forget about them :-) HTH
