emacs and /etc/alternatives

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Mar 9 17:08:46 UTC 2007


On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:51:50PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Well, then I guess my preference would be to eliminate the -nox subpackage 
> > from Fedora.  We can continue to support it for RHEL, since there will be 
> > headless servers, etc, that don't need all the GUI infrastructure.
> What! There couldn't be headless servers or X-less workstations running
> fedora? This seems to go in the opposite direction of sane objectives

???

All you need is to have the libraries installed. You can still be as
headless as you like. And of course this gives the advantage of being able
to run in GUI mode over ssh from your administrative workstation if you
like.


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