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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If I want to read manual in Emacs outside of smaller man-pages or
  > projects which split their manual of several man-pages than I would
  > prefer to find them in the Info format.  

I appreciate the wish for that.  I wish more Info manuals came in
my distro, and that installing a program would install its Info file.

  > Because of the limited acceptance finding manuals in the info format is 
hard.

"Hard" is an oversomplification of several related obstacles.  To
iprove this in general, we need to find the way that is effective in
general.

  > > Should we recruit people to package it for various kinds of distros?

  > Just make packaging easy.

Can you (or someone else) suggest specific changes to make specific
kinds of packaging easier?

  > Besides I think openSUSE can be trusted and the Open BuildService is
  > great software for this kind of purpose.

I don't usee that distro.  Would you like to give me a brief summary
of what it does?  What input does it need, and what output does it make?

What instructions are neededs to tell it how to package a specific manual?
How would it compare with usin writing and using a makefile to do that?


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