Subject: bug#18235: closed (Re: bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:46:03 +0000

Your bug report

#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#18235: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:45:25 -0400
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What you ask for is not possible.

Subject: emacs -nw still depends on libXcursor.so.1
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:53:37 +0800
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$ emacs -nw -q
emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libXcursor.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

True, my system is broken today.
However perhaps to increase resilliance,
maybe if the user uses -nw,
perhaps that X stuff can not be attempted to get pulled in.

That way a single emacs binary,
would also be useful,
for those days when one is repairing their system.

So no need to install a separate emacs-non-x package...
when in fact the system might be in such bad shape to make installation impossible, etc.