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GCC Dependency?

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Message #19 received at 73982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 73982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73982: GCC Dependency?
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:47:32 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It's how Red Hat decided to package
> Emacs, evidently to avoid having too many different Emacs packages.

Although Red Hat sponsor the Fedora project, they do not make these kinds of decisions.  Those are made by Fedora contributors.

> (They also seem to provide
> Git, Perl, and Enchant, which are not Emacs dependencies at all.)

Emacs command treesit-install-language-grammar calls git, which is why Fedora recommends it as an optional dependency.  Similarly for ispell and enchant2.

-- 
Peter Oliver

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