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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > 
> > should the whole package be installed or just 
> > the five needed files from it?.
> 
> The whole package.  
> ----------------------
> installpkg elflibs.tgz
> ----------------------

Why?  What are the other files (libslang, etc.) used for?
They take up an extra megabyte (which was one of your objections to using
a newer glibc6 - takes up more space).  

> links can be compiled without the libX11 dependency (but then
> it will not run in X, only in vgalib).  Leaving out libX11 will 
> probably make the binary smaller.

Is there some advantage to being able to run Links 2.1 in X?  (Does it do
things it would not do without X, maybe plugins such as Realaudio?)