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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: 73982@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73982: GCC Dependency?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:42:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8kmpg9FyVEV=4z9toCENLw=WbVPRtFoFA57+-LPV3aeNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to install emacs-nw, a/k/a emacs-nox, on a production Fedora
server to edit configuration files. I had to install Zile instead
because of all of Emac's dependencies, which now seems to include
compilers. Also see Red Hat Bug #2316238,
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2316238>.

I think the dev team made a bad architectural decision when it decided
to allow the cornucopia of dependencies to grow, which now appears to
include compilers. For my use case -- a production server facing the
internet -- I do not want extra packages, like compilers and linkers.
I am not trying to help an attacker produce executable code on my
machine.

I think it would be wise to remove the requirement of a compiler for a
simple text editor. The team needs to provide a simple text editor (in
addition to the other bloated offerings).

For completeness:

    $ dnf info emacs-nw
    Name         : emacs-nw
    Epoch        : 1
    Version      : 29.4
    Release      : 9.fc40
    Architecture : x86_64
    Size         : 31 M
    Source       : emacs-29.4-9.fc40.src.rpm
    Repository   : updates

Jeff





             reply	other threads:[~2024-10-24  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-24  7:42 Jeffrey Walton [this message]
2024-10-24  8:12 ` bug#73982: GCC Dependency? Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-24  9:15   ` Vincenzo Pupillo
2024-10-24 12:47   ` Peter Oliver
2024-10-24 13:07     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-25  1:34       ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-26  7:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-26 20:23 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
     [not found] ` <87cyjmtxzm.fsf@>
2024-10-27  5:56   ` Eli Zaretskii

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