From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 30 12:29:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00322 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA00310; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA04417; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:53:07 +0300 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:53:07 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: "Julian H. Stacey" cc: pst@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnats needs emacs to even build ! In-Reply-To: <199607301834.UAA22060@vector.jhs.no_domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi PST cc ports > > I was thinking of learning gnats, but > gnats/Makefile: > BUILD_DEPENDS= emacs:${PORTSDIR}/editors/emacs > on freefall: > 10379090 Jun 11 01:34 emacs-19.31.tar.gz > > I have a 14K modem & limited ftp patience / money for the phone company, > plus I happen to like vi, & don't want to learn emacs. > Qestion: Is emacs mandatory ? or does gnats have a `running light' capability > for vi / whatever-editor-you-choose, instead of emacs. > For instance EXMH supports whatever-editor-you-choose. > > PS please folks, don't let this degenerate into a boring > editor religous thread, thanks :-) > > PPS yes I've ordered ISDN, but thats still only 64Kbps, & thats's 10M > of emacs out there I don't want to ftp & learn, I just want to learn gnats :-) Hmm... Can't you use the package? Or do you in fact need to build it? You could even watch the build process to the point it needs emacs by removing that dependency... Sander > > Julian > -- > Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ >