Re: html texinfo install?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> The obvious directory would be $(datadir)/html by analogy with
> $(datadir)/info, but it seems a bit arrogant to use such a generic name
> for something which only relates to Texinfo manuals.  Maybe texinfo/html
> -- then we could have texinfo/xml/ and texinfo/docbook/ and ..., if we
> liked.  Thus:
> texinfodata = $(datadir)/texinfo
> texinfohtml = $(texinfodata)/html

Seems fine to me.

> Also, I'm not sure if make all should make them and make install should
> install them by default.  I'm inclined to say no, because including the
> HTML in the distributions (which would be the implication) seems like a
> lot of bloat, and I haven't exactly been flooded with complaints on the
> subject.  Alexandre suggested separate make [un]install-texinfohtml
> targets, which sounds fine to me.

I am against having separate install targets because GNU makefiles
normally install everything by default and that is what users should
expect.  Installing everything is not a problem for distribution
maintainers since they decide which files to package using their
distribution tools.

Bob
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