From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:48:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <875z3bq3p6.fsf@host.localdomain> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10776"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 46236@debbugs.gnu.org To: marmot-te Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 06:49:10 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 1l7B2L-0002hA-Sh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:49:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34912 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B2K-0007ru-VP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B2E-0007rV-Sb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:49:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B2E-0006nH-2x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:49:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B2E-0007a8-0N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:49:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 05:49:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46236 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46236-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46236.161233130529102 (code B ref 46236); Wed, 03 Feb 2021 05:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46236) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Feb 2021 05:48:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36559 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B1b-0007ZI-O4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54526) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B1X-0007Z3-KQ for 46236@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35921) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B1S-0006QU-DC; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:48:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l7B1R-0007es-1B; Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:48:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <875z3bq3p6.fsf@host.localdomain> (message from marmot-te on Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:10:13 +0000) 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:199176 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)