Re: --with-gtk as default?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:40:23 +0100
> Cc: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>,
>       Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden
> 
> Sigh.  So the default Emacs installations for decades to come are
> going to show off the utterly archaic Athena look

I don't see why this should be inevitable.  I'd expect the
distributors of GNU/Linux systems (RH, Debian, Suse, etc.) to provide
packages built with several (perhaps even all) supported toolkits,
including GTK+, even if it's not the default.  At least, that's what I
would do if I were the individual responsible for packaging Emacs.

IOW, the GNU project does not provide binaries for GNU/Linux
distributions, so how those binaries are configured and built is not
up to us.