On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 6:45 PM Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I usually use Emacs on full-blown Debian distributions, so I don't pay > much attention to how large it is. But I'm now starting to > play around with lightweight LXC containers, obviously headless, and would > like to keep using Emacs in these, but just for basic > text editing and so forth, I don't need a whole IDE environment. But to my > surprise, even emacs-nox is a gigantic installation, > that even wants to pull in MySQL, for heaven's sake. > > Is there some package, or a simple workaround, that will allow me to use a > basic Emacs without all the cruft? > To expand on what Stefan said, see < https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsImplementations>. And you can build it from sources, and really leave out the stuff you don't want: <https://superuser.com/q/617468>. Jeff
