From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Correspondence between web-pages and Info-pages Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:27:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420604897 13851 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2015 04:28:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 04:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 05:28:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8iDH-0007J2-NC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 05:27:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8iDH-00018u-64 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:27:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8iD5-0000ql-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8iD4-00045g-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53225) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8iD4-00045b-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8iD3-0006q2-8n; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:27:05 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Kelly Dean on Tue, 06 Jan 2015 06:44:20 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181021 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. ]]] > > and it would be hard for package installation > > to put manuals there. > Using HTTP (not HTTPS) in your web browser, open one of the pages > of the HTML versions of manuals on gnu.org. There, your browser > just installed a local copy of that page, completely > automatically. That's not hard. It is not onerous work, but it requires users to actively do something. That is a change for the worse, so I don't want it. I want package installation to install the package's info manuals locally, just as it does now. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.