Want to purge /usr/share/emacs. Risks?

[thedaver]

Hi, I've never been an emacs user on my Fedora 3-6 boxen. I have a specific machine that could use a little extra disk space.

/usr/share/emacs is good for 51MB of free space. Again, I don't use emacs personally, but I don't know if it's considered a helper application for stuff I don't know about.

# rpm -qa | grep -i emacs
emacspeak-21.0-2
emacs-21.4-5
emacs-common-21.4-5
emacs-leim-21.4-5

# rpm -q --whatrequires emacs
no package requires emacs

I'm inclined to remove the emacs stuff entirely, but I'm very concerned that I don't know what emacs is offering the system.

Currently the server runs named, httpd, mysqld, some qmail parts, syslogd. httpd is using php and few other modules for virt hosting.

I don't run any printer daemons, text conversions, or other inline apps that knowingly utilize emacs.

This move looks ok, but any words of caution would be welcome!
Thx, D.







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[itsp1965]

Daver, (I am no expert) but as far as I am concerned emacs is just another editor which shouldn't have any baring on running your system. As long as config files can be maintained by vi/vim I don't see the need for it
If you go through the GUI package mgr you will notice that it is just another optional app.
Hope this helps.

 

[DrD123]

Hi thedaver,

If it's any help... during my Fedora installs I don't even install EMACS as an option and it doesn't ever show up on my systems, and all is well.

Just need to make sure your profiles, etc... have a different EDITOR set. Although the default would be vi.

Good Luck
DrD

 

[jstreich]

emacspeak is pretty cool, but none of the packages on the list should interact with any others. It should be safe to remove emacs. I'd also recommend downgrading you window manager from Gnome or KDE to something like fvwm, ice or fluxBox if you're really that tight on space.

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