[SM-Discuss] emacs not using X : Solved

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Fri Aug 6 17:46:02 EDT 2004


Quoting Paul Mahon <dufflebunk at dufflebunk.homeip.net>:
> I thought the policy was not to include X as a dependency... perhaps I'm
> just out of date though.

IIRC we only include X dependency if it's needed/optional at compile time /and/
none of the package's dependencies implicitly or explicitly depend on X
already.

In this case (emacs) it has no DEPENDS file and so an optional_depends on
X11-LIBS (unless it needs -SERVER) would be okay, IIRC.

-sandalle

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