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GCC Dependency?

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Message #25 received at 73982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>, 73982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73982: GCC Dependency?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 09:34:41 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Obviously, it isn't my place to decide how should Fedora package
> Emacs, but if they prefer to err on the side of including all, they
> should be prepared to deal with complaints such as this one, instead
> of pointing the users who complain at the upstream project, which has
> nothing to do with those decisions.

I should add that git, perl, and the like are weak dependencies of
Emacs's in Fedora, and any one can install Emacs without them by
providing one argument to `dnf install':

   dnf install emacs-nox --setopt=install_weak_deps=False

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