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Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on eve


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 22:30:47 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.2.0 (2022-02-12)

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2022-02-19 21:09]:
> > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 20:51:16 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > Emacs currentl;y supports building with GTK only on GNU and Unix
> > > systems.
> > 
> > That means on Unix-like systems. It is better expressed that way. GNU
> > is Not Unix, true, though it is very much Unix-like, such systems are
> > mentioned as Unices if I remember well. 
> 
> "GNU and Unix systems" is standard GNU terminology.  We use it in
> umpteen places.

I did not know that. Though what do you think would this expression be
more clear:

"GNU and other Unix like systems"


Jean

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