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On 12/3/2012 8:09 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "without Gtk".  Do you want some other X
>> toolkit, such as Lucid or Motif?  Or no X toolkit?  What would be the
>> advantage of that?  The emacs build uses Gtk by default, so I would need
>> a good reason to do something different on Cygwin.
>
> openSUSE offers emacs-nox, emacs-x11 and emacs-gtk binaries and subpackages;
> emacs-x11 is built with Athena Widgets IIRC and does so precisely to avoid
> forcing the many dbus/Gtk dependencies onto systems that have no use for it
> otherwise.  I've been trying to keep a "lean" X11 alternative for my Cygwin
> installation here that does not pull in all that desktop infrastructure, but it
> seems I'm losing that battle anyway (both on the Gnome and the KDE/Qt front).

I can understand the motivation, but I really don't think Cygwin needs 
yet another emacs package, especially if it differs from the upstream 
defaults.  FWIW, I just checked Fedora 17.  On that system, `yum install 
emacs' gives you Emacs 24.1 with GTK+-2, which was the upstream default 
when Emacs 24.1 was released.  I also saw an emacs-nox package, but I 
didn't see Emacs built with an X toolkit other than Gtk.

Ken


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