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From: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 36828@debbugs.gnu.org, ofv@wanadoo.es
Subject: bug#36828: 27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:08:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ry8rfge.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mugwkh8u.fsf@gnu.org>

On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:11:45 +0300
Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I think you are missing the perspective of someone who considers the
> current behavior to be TRT.

Certainly. So much that I can't even imagine why anybody would consider
that TRT (although I do try, and will appreciate if you try to explain).

> IOW, why should we assume that the version of NEWS in the source tree
> is necessarily more up-to-date/useful than the one in the installation
> directory.  It could be, but then it could not be.

Hm, it seems the misunderstanding is mutual.

Whether some version is more up-to-date or useful (whatever that means)
is besides the point. What I meant by "most relevant for the running
executable" and "obvious" above was simply what seems to me a case of
the principle of least surprise: if I run /usr/bin/emacs, I expect it to
use the same PREFIX for other things, i.e. /usr/share/emacs.... If I run
/usr/local/bin/emacs, I expect it to use /usr/local/share/emacs.... And
if I run src/emacs, I expect it to use the source tree.

Does that really seem less reasonable than your "TRT"?

I can imagine the current behaviour being hard to change, but that still
wouldn't make it the right thing IMO.

-- 
Štěpán





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-29 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-28 15:07 bug#36828: 27.0.50; Uninstalled emacs shows installed documentation Óscar Fuentes
2019-07-28 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-28 15:56   ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-07-28 16:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29  0:36       ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-07-29 12:13         ` Štěpán Němec
2019-07-29 14:25           ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-07-29 14:41             ` Štěpán Němec
2019-07-29 14:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 14:47             ` Štěpán Němec
2019-07-29 15:11               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 15:20                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 16:08                 ` Štěpán Němec [this message]
2019-07-29 16:57                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 17:44                     ` Štěpán Němec
2019-07-29 18:13                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 18:33                         ` Štěpán Němec
2019-07-29 18:48                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 19:20                             ` Štěpán Němec
2019-07-29 19:31                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 18:42                         ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-07-29 19:26                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 21:09                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-07-30 15:08                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-07 14:25                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-07 15:00                                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-08-07 15:03                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-26  3:16                                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-26  8:51                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-26 11:55                                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-26 12:29                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-26 13:27                                         ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-26 13:45                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-26 20:05                                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-26 20:21                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-26 20:40                                                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-27  5:13                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-27 23:50                                                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-28 15:58                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-28 19:40                                                         ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-28 20:03                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-28 20:21                                                             ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-28 20:38                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-28 21:45                                                                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-29 11:56                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-02 17:08                                                                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-10-29  3:09                                                         ` Richard Stallman
2019-10-26  3:33                                 ` Óscar Fuentes

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