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Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:57:16 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: jb@jeremybryant.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:10:09 -0500
> 
>   > FWIW, I don't think this (IMO very useful and installed on my
>   > machines) manual belongs to Emacs.  It should be a separate manual.
> 
> As a general design principle, it doesn't seem to make sense to
> include all GNU manuals in the Emacs distribution merely because they
> are useful manuals.  The idea was to relese them separately and have
> them installed separately into a combined info tree.
> 
> Why is that not working?  What needs to be changed in some GNU/Linux
> distros?

It does work in general.  However, some manuals, which don't belong to
any project in particular, are largely unknown to exist.  The two
prominent examples I have are for some reason both related to the C
language: gnu-c-manual.info and c.info.  The latter is not even
mentioned in dir-example file that the Texinfo project distributes.



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