From: Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org>
Subject: Re: define Info's "dir"?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:07:56 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hdv2vys3.fsf@west_f1.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2480.1083262409.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Fri Apr 30, Eli Zaretskii disturbed my nap when he said:
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > From: Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:16:48 GMT
> >
> > I use gentoo. For some (to me, inexplicable) reason the gentoo folks have
> > decided to have emerge (the tool for installing new sources) search for
> > "dir" files and in some cases rename them to dir.old.
>
> Well, if you rename `dir' into `dir.info', will emerge leave it alone?
> If it will, you have your solution, I think.
>
Thanks - "dir.info" is apparently not detected and therefore left
untouched by emerge. I didn't know that was a valid name - thanks for the
help...
Mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-30 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-28 6:44 define Info's "dir"? Mike Ballard
2004-04-28 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-28 12:35 ` gebser
2004-04-28 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-29 15:35 ` gebser
[not found] ` <mailman.2124.1083147692.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-04-29 5:16 ` Mike Ballard
2004-04-29 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2480.1083262409.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-04-30 4:07 ` Mike Ballard [this message]
[not found] <mailman.2160.1083158847.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-04-28 15:23 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-05-01 9:42 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-02 3:11 ` gebser
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