Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:30:37 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Cc: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments, minor problems installing 2.1 Message-ID: <199512010030.RAA23570@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <v01530527ace2fabb23d6@[130.234.41.39]> References: <v01530527ace2fabb23d6@[130.234.41.39]>
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> >> 2. installed emacs+xemacs, but it does not work because of libXaw missing > > >Secondly, both packages by default assume you have XFree86 installed or > >they won't work. > > It is a little stupid. I have WWW server used by WWW clients. I have also > servers for people using pine, tin. Those boxes do not need XFree86. I want > to use emacs in system admin and people use it with tin etc. also. That's the problem with using pre-packaged software. You need to set it up so it's useful to most of the folks, which means it's not useful to a minority of the folks. You're only choice is to build it yourself. Start with the ports version and you shouldn't have any problems. Nate
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