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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU emacs size
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Date: 6 Feb 90 23:17:36 GMT
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| From: woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan)
| 
| I like the fact that EMACS comes shipped with just about everything a
| person could want and lets the system administrator install what he likes.

  Except that most system administrators are hard pressed for time and
can't take the time to peruse through all of GNU Emacs 10Mb of source to
determine what is and what isn't reasonable to have in a system editor.

  I'm really not advocating throwing all the gunk away, I'd just like it
separated out and, if possible, convince GNU to move it off to an
entirely separate distribution tree.  I'd like to pick up a GNU emacs
distribution and only get a system editor.  Not 3Mb of randomness (a
guess) plus a debugger.  If I want the 3Mb of randomness or the debugger,
I can pick up those trees separately and do a (make; make install; make
clean) in their directories.

Casey