Re: emacs-lucid (was Re: Emacs closure at ~900MB?)

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi,

Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:

> Given the size "issue" of emacs-with-gtk and the emacs warning on the
> long standing Gtk+ bug:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221
> Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is 
> unexpectedly lost.
> Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this 
> problem.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> IMHO it's useful to have emacs-lucid in official Guix, with subsitutes
> available for end users (I'm not using emacs in daemon mode over X11
> over SSH for fear of chrashes).

FYI, our 'emacs-no-x-toolkit' package has a closure size of 390.9 MiB
and does _not_ have the Gtk bug described above.  That's why I use it.

Are there additional benefits to 'emacs-lucid' that are not already
addressed by 'emacs-no-x-toolkit'?  I'm not necessarily opposed to
adding another Emacs variant, but I don't yet understand the motivation.

      Thanks,
        Mark