Wanted: binary build of Emacs without X11

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Sun Sep 7 14:20:42 UTC 2008


Greetings again. I'm not sure if this request should be done to this 
mailing list or as a PR, but here goes.

I run FreeBSD as a server, not as a desktop. Some of my users want 
Emacs. If I pull down the prebuilt binary, it requires a zillon 
X11-related packages that are of no use on my system. If I go to 
/usr/ports/editors/emacs and build with WITHOUT_X11, I still need to 
install a bunch of building tools that are basically unneeded by 
anything other than building Emacs.

It would be nice if the prebuilt binaries had an emacs-nox11.

--Paul Hoffman


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