emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 12:15 -0500, Chip Coldwell wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > Not to mention blind users for whom emacs without a GUI could *be* 
> > their desktop environment.
> 
> Actually, no.  They would need atk to get a screenreader, which sucks in 
> the entire gtk/gdk infrastructure.  

Not true. 

[mclasen at localhost ~]$ rpm -q --requires atk
/sbin/ldconfig  
/sbin/ldconfig  
libatk-1.0.so.0  
libc.so.6  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)  
libdl.so.2  
libglib-2.0.so.0  
libgmodule-2.0.so.0  
libgobject-2.0.so.0  
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rtld(GNU_HASH) 

Of course, to use GUI a11y tools, you need at least the GTK+ stack, but
that shouldn't be a surprise...