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Re: accessing own info files
From: |
Peter S Galbraith |
Subject: |
Re: accessing own info files |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:09:33 -0500 |
Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
> Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de> writes:
>
> > Yes, if I were a debian user, I would do that. If they have reason to
> > provide an alternative, incompatible program for installing info
> > files, they should use a different name for it.
>
> Well, Debian was there first. So actually, GNU should have used
> another name.
>
> I guess the best we can hope for is for the two implementations to
> provide similar features, so that they can be used interchangeably.
> My current pet peeve with the Debian version is that it doesn't
> create dir files automatically. Anyone care to ask them to add that
> feature?
>
> It's difficult to convince the Debian maintainers that there is
> another info directory besides /usr/share/info, and that the whole
> world does not consist of Debian packages.
There's an old bug report here about compatibility here:
http://bugs.debian.org/67237
Perhaps providing a patch would help things along.
Peter
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