From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Below Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accessing own info files Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:11:49 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <873cnskiyy.fsf@antithese.de> References: <87y95qr0ae.fsf@antithese.de> <873cnwwvjl.fsf@antithese.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042747875 18333 80.91.224.249 (16 Jan 2003 20:11:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:11:15 +0000 (UTC) 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 18ZGLF-0004jA-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:10:21 +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 18ZGLT-0004mA-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:10:35 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09001 (Oort Gnus v0.10) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qAn64LyVtz0FRtr9BoyGQebaD6g= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp164-386.uni-bielefeld.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-bielefeld.de 1042747512 ppp164-386.uni-bielefeld.de (16 Jan 2003 21:05:12 +0200) Original-Lines: 15 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!news.uni-bielefeld.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109047 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:5575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5575 "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: > What is the reason why Debian needs to keep a less "complete" version > of install-info anyway (I don't care who was there first)? In Debian, install-info comes with the package management tools, not with texinfo. It is a tool for automated installation of documentation for the installed packages. So probably the developers decided to leave out everything not needed for this task, to keep the package management tools lean. Michael -- _Agricultural activity_ is the management by an enterprise of the biological transformation of biological assets for sale, into agricultural produce, or into additional biological assets. IAS 41,5