From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:17:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iok7txrv.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtx3rsny8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:26 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>> All GNU manuals are free. Therefore they can be redistributed.
>> All GNU manuals have texinfo (well, I'm only interested in the ones that
>> do).
>> Texinfo manuals can be turned into packages.
>> Therefore we can put all GNU texinfo manuals into ELPA.
>
> Yes, we can do that. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.
> So what would be the benefits and the drawbacks?
>
> Clearly, you have some reason to do that. Could you explain it to us?
>
>
> Stefan "Preoccupied with keeping things up-to-date and in-sync"
I didn't mean to suggest it wouldn't be kept in sync. That would kind of
be the point.
The point would be to make them available to Emacs users. I am an Ubuntu
user. I just installed gnupg. No info manual appeared in my Emacs.
What I probably want is some sort of better info manual management. I
probably have the manual on my machine somewhere but it's not
automatically being found by Emacs.
I'll think more.
I shouldn't have bothered emacs-devel with a musing. But I re-assert
that is a problem. If "because we can doesn't mean we should" is a
gateway to ELPA then you've got a problem.
Nic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-28 9:36 ELPAing all the GNU manuals Nic Ferrier
2014-09-28 10:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-09-28 11:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-28 11:10 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-28 12:12 ` joakim
2014-09-28 12:41 ` David Kastrup
2014-09-28 12:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-09-28 12:49 ` Eric Brown
2014-09-28 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-28 18:17 ` Nic Ferrier [this message]
2014-09-28 20:58 ` Glenn Morris
2014-09-29 10:32 ` Thomas Koch
2014-09-29 16:51 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-09-29 20:49 ` Richard Stallman
2014-09-29 12:34 ` Matthias Meulien
2014-09-29 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 19:35 ` Matthias Meulien
2014-09-29 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-29 20:47 ` Richard Stallman
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