From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:20:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <875z3bq3p6.fsf@host.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38232"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: marmot-te , 46236@debbugs.gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 21 05:21:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lZ3QN-0009sB-I3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:20:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:48:13 -0500") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:204569 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > I suggest to add a notice in the info/dir file itself (or at least > > an info link easy to notice, be it to the FAQ or not) that > > explicit that you probably need to install system-wise : > > - extra documentations packages such as bash-doc, > > emacs-common-non-dfsg (non-free repository for debian). > > - ensure texinfo is installed in order to compile documentation > > when new emacs packages are installed. > > In principle this is desirable, but it may be complex. For instance, > on various GNU/Linux distros the method is different. Let's assume for the sake of argument that we only want to do this for Debian and derivatives. That would require adding the non-free repository, thus indirectly encouraging users to use proprietary software. Is that something we really would want to do?