emacs | The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage) | Mehr ...
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs release.
emacs22-common | The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture independent infrastructure | Mehr ...
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains the architecture independent infrastructure that's shared by emacs22, emacs22-gtk, and emacs22-nox.
emacs22-el | GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files | Mehr ...
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This package contains the elisp sources for the convenience of users, saving space in the main package for small systems.