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bug#25361: info_TEXINFOS cannot be set conditionally?
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Mathieu Lirzin |
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bug#25361: info_TEXINFOS cannot be set conditionally? |
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Sun, 16 Jul 2017 01:35:57 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017, at 17:27, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>> People using git sources can and should be expected to have more
>> complete tool chests than others, and makeinfo is well within the bounds
>> of what constitutes a reasonable tool collection for anyone wanting to
>> build GNU software from sources.
>
> True.
>
>> > So, if nano.info and nano.html are already there, install them, but
>> > if they are not and 'makeinfo' is absent, don't even /try/ to build
>> > them. I don't see how I can achieve that.
>>
>> You shouldn't. Pretending the build, much less install, was successful
>> despite such a lack of documentation is just a bad idea.
>
> Okay.
>
> Benno
As explained by Hans-Bernhard, I think it is acceptable for a packages
having a Texinfo based documentation to require its contributors to have
'makeinfo' installed.
Thanks for the report.
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Mathieu Lirzin
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