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.
>
>
>
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