From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, Arnaud Daby-Seesaram <ds-ac@nanein.fr>
Subject: Re: Installing info manuals without cluttering my profile.
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:33:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0BBFF826-0201-4DFE-A020-0B2FDFF33218@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v7xs1mi5.fsf@nanein.fr>
Hi Arnaud,
I have a very superficial understanding of Texinfo, but I thought it relied on 'directory' files and not just collections of raw .info files. In Guix, these are generated by a profile hook.
From <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Other-Info-Directories.html>:
> The standalone Info reader merges any files named dir in any directory listed in the INFOPATH variable into a single menu presented to you in the node called ‘(dir)Top’.
All I know is that there is no 'dir' file in $(guix build emacs)/share/info. I think that a package shipping one directly would be wrong.
Were I in your position, I would not manually mess around with environment variables (which is also 'clobbering' your main environment!), but instead maintain a separate Guix profile for my info manuals.
Kind regards,
T G-R
Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
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2024-10-16 8:26 Installing info manuals without cluttering my profile Arnaud Daby-Seesaram
2024-10-16 18:33 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2024-10-16 18:39 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2024-10-17 7:57 ` Arnaud Daby-Seesaram
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