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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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 just out of date though.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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