From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Cc: miles@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, eliz@is.elta.co.il,
hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:07:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210031507.g93F7XR10899@f7.net> (raw)
This means that on a system which comes with an Info directory
in /usr/info, our packages will by default not install into that
directory. I think that is somewhat of a problem. Can we find
a way to solve it?
Hmm. I don't understand why it's a problem any more than it's a problem
for binaries. If one downloads the emacs tar.gz and does configure &&
make && make install, the binaries don't end up in /usr/bin. This is a
feature, not a bug. Same for info files.
The configure system allows for installers to choose where to put the
installed files, using the options Eli mentioned, or other ways. This
is good, because /usr/info is just one of dozens of existing site
configurations. I still don't see what we gain by somehow making one
particular install directory for one particular file type a special case
... ?
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2002-10-03 15:07 Karl Berry [this message]
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2002-10-07 15:51 Emacs cvs newbie problems Karl Berry
2002-10-07 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-07 15:51 Karl Berry
2002-10-08 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
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
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-03 0:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 13:36 Karl Berry
2002-10-03 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
2002-10-01 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 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
2002-10-01 14:13 Karl Berry
2002-10-02 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
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
2002-09-30 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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