From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:12:32 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200209301412.g8UECWC22730@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033395413 13895 127.0.0.1 (30 Sep 2002 14:16:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, eliz@is.elta.co.il, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17w1Lw-0003bz-00 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:16:52 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17w25e-00007x-00 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:04:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17w1M7-0008Ad-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17w1II-0007wC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17w1Hm-0007sQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from consort.superb.net ([209.61.216.22] helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17w1Hm-0007sF-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:12:34 -0400 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8UECWC22730; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:12:32 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8261 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8261 Should Texinfo (and Emacs) install into /usr/share/info rather than /usr/info? Well, all programs install into $(infodir)/dir as far as I know. I don't see anything to change there. Until now, the definition of $(infodir) has been $(prefix)/info, but I gather we now will prefer $(datadir)/info. Could Emacs be smarter about merging the various Info dir files? The answer to that seems to be yes. If there are two dir entries which both refer to the same filename(node), as with `emacs' in this case, I can't see much point in including them both in the merged dir file, since they're going to end up at the same place. This would have fixed Luc's problem. I can imagine various other new features, but nothing that really seems worth it. Another part of the problem is the plethora of dircategories that are in use. Both the packagers and the maintainers tend to make up a new category at the drop of a hat, and this results in the same dir entries being repeated over and over again. Luc, can you please send a shar file (or whatever) with all the dir files on your system, so we have something to work with? Thanks, karl