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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: accessing own info files
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:40:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E18ZUrQ-0002jO-00@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873cnskiyy.fsf@antithese.de> (message from Michael Below on Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:11:49 +0100)

   > 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)?

   It is a tool for automated installation of documentation for the
   installed packages.

And the GNU version of install-info is what exactly? The automated
writting of documentation for installed packages? :-) Seriously, I do
not see any difference between GNU's version and Debian's version,
they both install/remove entries from $(infodir)/dir, only that they
do it a bit differently code wise, and option wise.

You give no reason on why Debian needs to keep a less featured version
of install-info that is also incompatible with GNU install-info, which
also is more widly used.  Also, it is GNU texinfo that decides what
the dir file should look like, thus GNU's install-info is the
"upstream" version anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-17 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-12 12:59 accessing own info files Michael Below
2003-01-12 16:28 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-13 22:10   ` Michael Below
2003-01-14  7:17     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-14 15:36     ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-14 17:14       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-15  1:09         ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-01-15 18:39         ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-16 11:11           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
     [not found]           ` <mailman.367.1042715506.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-16 15:43             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-16 17:04               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
     [not found]               ` <mailman.388.1042737292.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-16 20:01                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-17 11:42                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2003-01-16 19:11             ` Michael Below
2003-01-17 11:40               ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2003-01-13  3:16 ` Galen Boyer
2003-01-14 13:48 ` solution for " Michael Below

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