Re: Standards for INFO-DIR-SECTION names?

[Peter J. Farley III]

At 09:44 AM 2/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>Would it really hurt or annoy if these tool packages each had their
>>own INFO-DIR-SECTION?  And how much work is it to accomplish that?
>
>Right, it is not much work. I recommend sending patches to the 
manuals
>to the appropriate bug- lists, and the maintainers will probably be
>happy to apply them, or a variation thereof.

OK, I'll try to do that.

>In the dir-example file I constructed, I put binutils as a package in
>`GNU programming tools'.  The other *utils are in `GNU packages'.  I
>think it would be hard to choose categories for most of the 
individual
>utilities, since they are so basic.  Getting into permuted index land 

>...

Yes, picking the section names is the hard part.  I'd personally be 
happy if fileutils came under section Fileutils, etc., but my needs are 
simple.
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