From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 24 15:33:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12146 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12140 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:33:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA05498; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:32:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19981024153250.B4735@nuxi.com> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:32:50 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dan Swartzendruber Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199810241905.MAA05523@dingo.cdrom.com> <3.0.5.32.19981024160121.009bc430@mail.kersur.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981024160121.009bc430@mail.kersur.net>; from Dan Swartzendruber on Sat, Oct 24, 1998 at 04:01:21PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Speaking of irritating installation issues: why do I have to install X > to use emacs? Because the maintainier of emacs believes that X support is desired in the general case. You aren't in the general case. You could appeal to the maintainer to change his mind. OR build the port yourself by: cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs make install distclean -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message