From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter S Galbraith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accessing own info files Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:09:33 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030115010933.CF18143B07@mixed.dyndns.org> References: <87y95qr0ae.fsf@antithese.de> <873cnwwvjl.fsf@antithese.de> <84adi3irge.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042593078 13653 80.91.224.249 (15 Jan 2003 01:11:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:11:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Yc5M-0003Y5-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:11:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Yc5C-0001AU-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:11:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Yc4A-00008v-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:10:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Yc3o-0007PJ-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:09:47 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-123-5.globetrotter.net ([142.169.123.5] helo=mixed.dyndns.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Yc3j-00076y-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mixed.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mixed.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF18143B07; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:09:33 -0500 (EST) Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro johann) In-Reply-To: Message from kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro johann) <84adi3irge.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.1+cvs; nmh 1.0.4+dev; Emacs 21.2 X-Face: "#bYm%*(4JuXAkouMxaLz|M2dbXUFnQ"IRX)zpsiM"(B}`#|_b548$VB}5L&VIck1F#FNc' rsASk0?-/gFp2qzM>0]`Jc}Qd<8[l)N7{8%qMN~{|DS.ME.$ X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5494 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5494 Kai Großjohann wrote: > Benjamin Riefenstahl writes: > > > Yes, if I were a debian user, I would do that. If they have reason to > > provide an alternative, incompatible program for installing info > > files, they should use a different name for it. > > Well, Debian was there first. So actually, GNU should have used > another name. > > I guess the best we can hope for is for the two implementations to > provide similar features, so that they can be used interchangeably. > My current pet peeve with the Debian version is that it doesn't > create dir files automatically. Anyone care to ask them to add that > feature? > > It's difficult to convince the Debian maintainers that there is > another info directory besides /usr/share/info, and that the whole > world does not consist of Debian packages. There's an old bug report here about compatibility here: http://bugs.debian.org/67237 Perhaps providing a patch would help things along. Peter