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: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:13:42 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210011413.g91EDgh32220@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033481861 11460 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2002 14:17:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17wNqD-0002yX-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:17:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17wOaP-0000xD-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:05:22 +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 17wNqV-0002iI-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wNmh-00022f-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wNme-00020c-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:13:57 -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 17wNmV-0001wq-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g91EDgh32220; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:13:42 -0400 Original-To: miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, eliz@is.elta.co.il, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@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:8292 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8292 /usr/share/info, I think -- it (1) makes sense [info files are `shareable'] (2) is what debian and other gnu/linux systems seem to use. Sorry, but I don't understand what we are discussing. Surely the value for infodir should be the same in the emacs distribution as it is in every other distribution -- namely $(datarootdir)/info (or $(prefix)/info until datarootdir makes it into autoconf). And the default prefix should presumably be /usr/local for emacs as it is for everything else. Hopefully no one is really proposing hardwiring infodir as /usr/share/info?! Or making the default prefix be /usr? That makes no sense to me. If we want /usr/share/info ... Why would we want this? I am baffled. What problem are we trying to solve? As far as I can see, everyone is happy already. Packagers can get what they want now (by setting prefix=/usr), so they are happy. And individual sysadmins can get what they want (by leaving prefix alone or setting it to whatever their local site convention is), so they are happy. Am I missing something?