Well, it seems that the "xemacs" I was looking for is actually called emacs-x in RHEL5.
-C On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Corey Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Some of my users came to me today asking where xemacs went after a >>> RHEL5.2 install. I didn't have a good answer for them except that >>> someone seems to have decided that in RHEL, xemacs is dead. I am >>> curious who made that decision and why? I am not an emacs user but I >>> find it hard to digest that something like that would be removed. >>> >> >> I could see multiple reasons. >> >> 1. xemacs in the far past had a small user base in comparison to >> emacs, vi or even joe (as seen by number of downloads and how many >> systems have it installed.) It hasnt had any spectacular growth in >> news that I could see that changing. >> 2. for a while there was not much work being done by anyone in Fedora on it. >> 3 It is also a large set of packages that duplicate stuff in emacs >> (though in some ways better or worse depending on your religious >> choices). >> >>> Anyone? > > If the users are interested in having it included in an outside > repository they can work with rpmrepo or EPEL on getting it included > in the build system. > > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux > How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed > in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
