From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:51:51 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210071551.g97Fppx01293@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034006219 31827 127.0.0.1 (7 Oct 2002 15:56:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: keichwa@gmx.net, miles@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, eliz@is.elta.co.il, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yaFc-0008H4-00 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:56:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17yb2l-0001JX-00 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 18:47:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17yaDT-0001g0-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17yaCN-0007mN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17yaBG-0005vs-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:52:29 -0400 Original-Received: from consort.superb.net ([209.61.216.22] helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17yaAl-00059K-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 11:51:55 -0400 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g97Fppx01293; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:51:51 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8443 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8443 The usual reason, today, why there are manuals in multiple directories is because of incompatibilities between packages. In other words, it is an accident. That is one reason. But the main reason I personally have seen is not accidental at all -- it is so sysadmins can keep locally installed manuals separate from those installed with the system. Otherwise, you lose your local dir file entries when system upgrades are done. Anyway, I'll work on changing standalone info to do the merging. Hopefully someone here can fix info.el in emacs (which is far more widely used). Thanks, k