emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:13:02PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > If having a fedora box without X installed but still functionnal is not 
> > > convincing I don't know where we are heading.
> > As mentioned, you don't need to have an X server installed. The argument for
> > saving the few megs of disk space used by the X libraries themselves *isn't*
> > convincing.
> This is not an issue of space, but of having the choice not to install 
> the X libs.

Which isn't, as I said, very convincing. They're not running as root, and
they're not installed setuid, they need to don't do wacky things with memory
and hardware access, etc. -- in short, they don't fall under the basic
reasons for wanting to avoid installing X. They're just some more libraries,
nothing special to worry about.

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