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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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>  *      If the Motif license allows it, could you just statically link the
>  * Motif library?
> 
> It's possible, but do people really want this?

Yes, we want it.  I'd rather have XEmacs than not, and requiring a
$100+ package to use it when it's not necessary seems a shame.

> It's gonna be bloated,
> and xemacs is already big enough at it is (the binary is almost 3MB
> with shared everything!)....

When you add in the lisp files, adding a couple hundred K more isn't
going to make *THAT* big of a difference.


Nate