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: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:07:33 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210031507.g93F7XR10899@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033714421 8725 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 06:53:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, 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 17xMLD-0002Ga-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:53:39 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17xN6i-0001cD-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:42:44 +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 17xLq3-0003nV-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 02:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17x7Zk-00021V-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17x7Zh-00021H-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:07:38 -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 17x7Ze-00020y-00; Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g93F7XR10899; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:07:33 -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:8371 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8371 This means that on a system which comes with an Info directory in /usr/info, our packages will by default not install into that directory. I think that is somewhat of a problem. Can we find a way to solve it? Hmm. I don't understand why it's a problem any more than it's a problem for binaries. If one downloads the emacs tar.gz and does configure && make && make install, the binaries don't end up in /usr/bin. This is a feature, not a bug. Same for info files. The configure system allows for installers to choose where to put the installed files, using the options Eli mentioned, or other ways. This is good, because /usr/info is just one of dozens of existing site configurations. I still don't see what we gain by somehow making one particular install directory for one particular file type a special case ... ?