Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: Does emacs need X? "):
> On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > Could this library be encluded with the standard library packages? It
> > > seems to me there is more than emacs that has this dependancy.
> >
> > I'd rather not use the disk space unless it is needed. All of the things
> > that
> > use it properly list a dependency on it, and the thing gets installed if you
> > install anything that uses it. What's wrong with this?
>
> Nothing, I guess... If you didn't download the x11 directory the first
> time, because you thought you didn't want it, you can always come back
> later and get it...
Perhaps it would be better to put the xlibraries package in a
different directory ?
This might have other undesirable consequences, though.
Ian.
