emacs and /etc/alternatives

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 19:53 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:33:45PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> They are unusefull code lying around which is better avoided when
> possible. Less code installed less issues to worry about.

It amazes me that people can say things like this with a straight face
when talking about an editor with a built-in Eliza.

- ajax