From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:09:42 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210071609.g97G9g725312@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200210071551.g97Fppx01293@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034007872 6124 127.0.0.1 (7 Oct 2002 16:24:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:24:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, keichwa@gmx.net, 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 17yagH-0001ac-00 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 18:24:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17ybTQ-00021Q-00 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:15:17 +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 17yaUW-000803-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17yaTF-0004rO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:11:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17yaSa-0003GV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17yaS5-00025Z-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g97G9g725312; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:09:42 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) 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:8446 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8446 > The usual reason, today, why there are manuals in multiple > directories is because of incompatibilities between packages. > In other words, it is an accident. > > That is one reason. But the main reason I personally have seen is not > accidental at all -- it is so sysadmins can keep locally installed > manuals separate from those installed with the system. Otherwise, you > lose your local dir file entries when system upgrades are done. Also because those various dirs might be managed by different people with different access rights. The obvious example is with /usr/info vs ~/info. Stefan