Re: emacs and /etc/alternatives

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:33:45PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> Which isn't, as I said, very convincing. They're not running as root, and
> they're not installed setuid, they need to don't do wacky things with memory
> and hardware access, etc. -- in short, they don't fall under the basic
> reasons for wanting to avoid installing X. They're just some more libraries,
> nothing special to worry about.

They are unusefull code lying around which is better avoided when
possible. Less code installed less issues to worry about.

Of course having an X server lying around would be even worse.

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