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From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:13:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210011413.g91EDgh32220@f7.net> (raw)

    /usr/share/info, I think -- it (1) makes sense [info files are `shareable']
    (2) is what debian and other gnu/linux systems seem to use.

Sorry, but I don't understand what we are discussing.

Surely the value for infodir should be the same in the emacs
distribution as it is in every other distribution -- namely
$(datarootdir)/info (or $(prefix)/info until datarootdir makes it into
autoconf).  And the default prefix should presumably be /usr/local for
emacs as it is for everything else.

Hopefully no one is really proposing hardwiring infodir as
/usr/share/info?!  Or making the default prefix be /usr?  That makes no
sense to me.

    If we want /usr/share/info ...

Why would we want this?  I am baffled.  What problem are we trying to
solve?  As far as I can see, everyone is happy already.  Packagers can
get what they want now (by setting prefix=/usr), so they are happy.  And
individual sysadmins can get what they want (by leaving prefix alone or
setting it to whatever their local site convention is), so they are
happy.

Am I missing something?

             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-01 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry [this message]
2002-10-02  4:07 ` Emacs cvs newbie problems Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-07 15:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-08 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-07 15:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-07 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-04 15:57 Karl Berry
2002-10-05 16:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 13:00 Karl Berry
2002-10-04 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-04 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-05 16:33   ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 22:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 22:28   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-06 16:14     ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-03 15:07 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-03  0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-03  4:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-04  3:48     ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 10:05   ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-10-04 15:46     ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 18:28       ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-10-05 16:33         ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-04 19:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-03  0:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 20:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-02  4:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 20:07 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02 19:23   ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02  4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 17:24 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02  4:07   ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02  4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-01 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01 18:42   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-02  4:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-02  4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-30 21:43 Karl Berry
2002-10-01  4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-30 14:12 Karl Berry
2002-09-30 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01  6:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-16 21:07 Karl Berry
2002-09-16  0:02 Karl Berry
2002-09-16  1:41 ` Miles Bader
2002-09-16  2:14   ` Alan Shutko
2002-09-16  5:40     ` Rob Browning
2002-09-18 18:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-16  1:51 ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-16 19:28 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-18 18:44   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20  3:09     ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-20  4:45       ` Miles Bader
2002-09-20 18:42       ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-20 21:21         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 21:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-20 22:07         ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-20 22:41           ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-21  8:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-21 19:39           ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-21 22:13             ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-22  4:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-09-30  2:49               ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-30  3:40                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-30  5:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-01  6:17                   ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-01  7:49                     ` Miles Bader
2002-09-20 22:19         ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-14 20:40 Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14 21:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-14 22:11   ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14 23:03     ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15  1:24       ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-15  2:42         ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 11:13           ` Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-15 12:42         ` Miles Bader
2002-09-15 20:50         ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15 20:50         ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15  0:08     ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 20:50       ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-15 15:37     ` Luc Teirlinck
2002-09-15 15:16 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-14  6:20 Steven T. Hatton
2002-09-14  6:40 ` Damien Elmes
2002-09-15  1:50 ` Richard Stallman

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