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> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:12:32 -0400
> From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
> 
>     Could Emacs be smarter about merging the various Info dir files?
> 
> The answer to that seems to be yes.  If there are two dir entries which
> both refer to the same filename(node), as with `emacs' in this case, I
> can't see much point in including them both in the merged dir file,
> since they're going to end up at the same place.

The hard question is which one to choose...