From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: --disable-features in 109483 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:31:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <50210E9F.7020106@yandex.ru> <87vcgugiqh.fsf@gnu.org> <5021E6BB.6070100@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344429088 3490 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2012 12:31:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:31:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Emacs development discussions To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 14:31:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz5Q5-0003Gs-0l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:31:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz5Q4-0002ZA-Ac for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz5Pv-0002Yi-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz5Pu-0003WP-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:10010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz5Pq-0003Pm-6v; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:31:10 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09Ld/LR/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgcBboJkEQDozOBWIMF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="195260872" Original-Received: from 75-119-242-209.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.242.209]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 08 Aug 2012 08:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 84968599B1; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:31:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <5021E6BB.6070100@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:10:35 +0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152333 Archived-At: > 2) Building small OS distribution to fit in CD, 100Mb or so. Such > a distributions usually prefers vi{m} and/or small Emacs clones, > but who knows; such a distribution is not necessary X-less. But then we'd need to figure out how to strip the rest of the installation (doc, leim, lisp, etc, ...). --disable-features only saves a small percentage of disk space overall. > 3) Using minimalistic desktop environments on top of the old hardware. The auto-detection done by autoconf should already take care to disable whatever feature is not available. Stefan