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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: ispell port is evil
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 17:28:03 +0000 (GMT)
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Just built ispell from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current tree.

For some stupid reason, the ispell port has a dependence on emacs.

I do not want emacs on my system.  Ispell is a spell checking utility.
Ispell does not need to be invoked from emacs.

-- 
Steve

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*** Makefile.orig	Wed Aug  6 17:26:10 1997
--- Makefile	Wed Aug  6 16:53:43 1997
***************
*** 14,20 ****
  
  MAINTAINER=	jmz@FreeBSD.org
  
! BUILD_DEPENDS=	emacs:${PORTSDIR}/editors/emacs
  
  MAKE_FLAGS=	TMPDIR=${.CURDIR} -f 
  MAN1=		buildhash.1 findaffix.1 ispell.1 munchlist.1 \
--- 14,20 ----
  
  MAINTAINER=	jmz@FreeBSD.org
  
! #BUILD_DEPENDS=	emacs:${PORTSDIR}/editors/emacs
  
  MAKE_FLAGS=	TMPDIR=${.CURDIR} -f 
  MAN1=		buildhash.1 findaffix.1 ispell.1 munchlist.1 \