From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 9:56:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B639F37B41A for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp246.dialsprint.net ([206.133.15.136] helo=moo.holy.cow) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16nNqU-0002cd-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:56:27 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5CCA050B8E; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:58:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:58:42 -0500 From: parv To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing xemacs21 w/ minimum packages Message-ID: <20020319175842.GA31005@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020319080130.GA16769@moo.holy.cow> <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>, wrote Lowell Gilbert thusly... > > parv writes: > > > i want to install xemacs w/o all other junk listed in > > xemacs-packages/Makefile as all i want is an editor. what can i do > > away w/? > > All of it, I think. It looks like xemacs-packages is only pulled in > to provide the "enriched text" support. Just pull out the RUN_DEPENDS > line. You can probably pull out the graphics support, too, without > missing it. i was thinking of the same; just needed a second nod. > As a very heavy emacs user, though, I have to ask: if all you want is > basic editing functions, are you sure that you want emacs? you are quite perceptive. personally, i prefer vi(m); xemacs is for those rare occasions when people other than myself use my laptop & ask for emacs. come to think of it, editors other than vi clones should be ok too for said people. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message