From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: marmot-te <marmot-te@riseup.net>, 46236@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:20:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmOKApd88xfTZaubPa4qOoWcLQOL3mhFsE_0M53GQ4_Ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1l7B1R-0007es-1B@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:48:13 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > I suggest to add a notice in the info/dir file itself (or at least
> > an info link easy to notice, be it to the FAQ or not) that
> > explicit that you probably need to install system-wise :
> > - extra documentations packages such as bash-doc,
> > emacs-common-non-dfsg (non-free repository for debian).
> > - ensure texinfo is installed in order to compile documentation
> > when new emacs packages are installed.
>
> In principle this is desirable, but it may be complex. For instance,
> on various GNU/Linux distros the method is different.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that we only want to do this for
Debian and derivatives. That would require adding the non-free
repository, thus indirectly encouraging users to use proprietary
software. Is that something we really would want to do?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-01 14:10 bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation marmot-te
2021-02-03 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-21 3:20 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-04-21 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 12:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 12:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 15:32 ` Glenn Morris
2021-04-21 16:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 12:32 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 13:47 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 13:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 13:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 14:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-06 14:25 ` Tomas Nordin
2021-03-07 6:11 ` Richard Stallman
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