From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14064: info.info page has conflict with info package Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:35:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83sj3a3j9u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5152E426.1000800@redhat.com> <51530C74.2060000@redhat.com> <2j7gkn79nb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83wqsn2y5n.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364794585 23972 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2013 05:36:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 05:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14064@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 01 07:36:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXQE-0001xY-7y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:36:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXPp-0001Cf-PT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXPl-0001CN-0k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXPf-0007kR-Gq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXPf-0007kJ-Ch for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXSP-00007j-QM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:39:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:39:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14064 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14064-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14064.1364794689400 (code B ref 14064); Mon, 01 Apr 2013 05:39:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14064) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Apr 2013 05:38:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55209 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXRY-00006O-KN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:38:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:54514) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UMXRW-00006G-26 for 14064@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:38:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKK00F009TO7E00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 14064@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:35:13 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKK00FABA6P8820@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:35:13 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:73055 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: 14064@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:46:27 -0400 > > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > >> How about installing ours only if none is found in some DIR file along > >> INFOPATH? > > To be more explicit; the environment at the time the rpm is built may > bear no relation to the environment in which it is installed. By "environment", are you alluding to my suggestion to look along INFOPATH? If so, we could search in certain standard directories, such as /usr/local/share/info, as well. > So AFAICS there is nothing clever the Emacs install rule can do > here. As I said, I'd just make the rpm spec file unconditionally not > install Emacs's info.info. How is an rpm more clever than Emacs? What do they do that Emacs's installation procedure cannot?