[Rule-list] emacs

[Marco Fioretti]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 23:13:23 at 11:13:23PM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote:
[snip] 
> It's on Red Hat cd 2. Just rpm -ivh emacs and emacs-nox. You may want to 
> include emacs-el as well. There should be no dependency issues when 
> installing on a base install.
[snip]
> emacs and emacs-nox will require something in the area of ~26Mb of disk 
> space.
> 

I confirm this, and add that this is probably one of those cases where
the post-install script may be useful. For example, since we are going
to include other mail/ftp/www/news clients, we should try to:

	install the (standard RH) rpm above, 26 MB and all

	have the post install script remove anything possible from
		those 26 MB regarding the {mail..} functionalities
		above, + support for unneeded fonts/languages/games...

on my RH 7.2 desktop, removing the directories listed below would
recover 13016 Kbytes, and erasing the info pages another 7 megs. Now
removing documentation is much uglier than all the rest, and should
really be a conscious decision of each user, but leaving off the rest sounds
as a reasonable default for a RULE desktop user, doesn't it; on a
server, assuming one wants emacs on it, even docs could happily go
away, probably.

	Ciao,
		Marco Fioretti
		RULE project leader

[marco at polaris marco]$ rpm -qa|grep -i emacs
emacs-20.7-41
emacs-X11-20.7-41

and, to have an idea of how much we may make it lighter:

[marco at polaris marco]$ du -sk 	/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/gnus
				/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/language
				/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/international
				/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/mail 
				/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/play
				/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lang/
				/usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL*

3080    /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/gnus
264     /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/language
500     /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/international
720     /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/mail
440     /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/play
20      /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lang
44      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL
44      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.cs
68      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.de
48      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.ja
80      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.ko
48      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.nl
56      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.pl
48      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.ro
44      /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.sl
168     /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/TUTORIAL.th

totalling: 13016 Kbytes

the info manuals
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