[wplug] Compiler questions

[Tim Lesher]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:13:45PM -0500, redtoade wrote:
> That was always my problem with RedHat rpms.  They would package
> binaries that I didn't want and that weren't really dependencies.  As
> in my previous example, the emacs rpm included a lot of klunk, and if
> I wanted to run emacs inside a bash shell, I needed to type "emacs
> -nw"... otherwise it would automatically launch a new window.  If I
> didn't want this, then my only option was to compile from source.  And
> that option has NO package management!

Not that this negates your argument, but as far back as I can
remember, Redhat provided an "emacs-nox" package for this very
purpose.  I'm typing this message in it right now...

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Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
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