emacs and /etc/alternatives

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Fri Mar 9 17:20:06 UTC 2007


On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:05:17PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 09 March 2007 11:51:50 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > What! There couldn't be headless servers or X-less workstations running
> > fedora? This seems to go in the opposite direction of sane objectives
> > for fedora, and also there has been some very interesting innovations that
> > should simplify installing fedora in such setups (say the minimal or
> > server spin).
> 
> X-less != no x libraries.  Same with headless.  With a few X libraries one has 
> the ability to run graphical applications over an ssh tunnel to a machine 
> with X on it.

I wanted to say without X libraries. I think having a setup without X
libraries should be perfectly fine in fedora, with emacs (though I
prefer vi ;-).

--
Pat




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