Montreal Wed Apr 14 15:36:19 1999 Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you can't install Emacs on a > > Debian system without first install X?! That's quite a showstopper. > > Is it a bug? > > > > Install emacs 20, not 19...version 19 does seem to depend on xlib6g. That > doesn't make sense if you ask me. Maybe it should suggest it or > something, because it is compiled with X support, but it's definitely not > required. > The depends list for emacs20 doesn't mention anything about > X: Depends: emacsen-common, liblockfile0, libc6, liblockfile0 (>= 0.1-1), > libncurse
Hmmm, according to http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/editors/emacs20.html emacs20 does depend on xlib which depends on xfree86-common. -N. -- "These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer." [Microsoft website] < http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~navindra/editors/ >