Re: X development libraries

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 13:35:14 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > > It would help to have the dependency install instructions in the emacs
> > > install documentation. It is difficult to know what is actually required
> > > on a new Trisquel 11 installation.
> > 
> > 
> > This information is specific to the distro you use, so it's not
> > practical to us the upstream project to provide it accurately for all
> > the distros out there.
> 
> Specific information should be there at leas-t for the GNU Distributions
> in https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
> 
> Distributions which the Free Software Foundation recommends and endorses.
> 
> And to not provide the information for all the other distros not mentioned.

Endorsing distributions doesn't mean we can do their jobs.

Please don't expect us to do that, it's not our job.  The dependencies
we know about are described in INSTALL, but we cannot be expected to
describe that in terms of packages provided by distros.