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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:51:02 -0400
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
From: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com>
Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems 
Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>,
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At 01:40 PM 10/24/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
>> 
>> Speaking of irritating installation issues: why do I have to install X
>> to use emacs?  I seem to recall, back in my linux days, that there was
>> an emacs executable that didn't require X.  The standard emacs binary
>> requires a bunch of non vty libraries that I don't really want to have
>> to install on stripped-down servers.
>
>If the machine is "stripped down", then you sure don't want Emacs on it.
>Try one of the lighter clones, and save yourself the worry.

I'm not sure I understand your point.  These are headless servers.  They
run all kinds of server applications, but virtually no user stuff, and
certainly no X apps/libraries.  Emacs is handy to have to edit configuration
files and such when one telnets to the machine to make a change.




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