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bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:31:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> I think duplicate entries is not a problem.
>
> If they aren't, then why do we have Info-dir-remove-duplicates?
I meant that duplicate entries is not a problem when they lead to
different manuals. IOW, when their absolute filenames are not duplicated.
> This is not specific to the situation with source and build
> directories. This will happen any time you have identical entries
> collected from different DIR files, each one of them referring to a
> different copy/version of the same manual. Info always searches for
> each file along Info-directory-list (INFOPATH for the stand-alone Info
> reader) in the order of the directories in that list, and displays the
> first matching manual it finds. As long as this is the way it works,
> you will be unable to solve this problem. It's like with searching
> exec-path for executable programs or load-path for Lisp libraries.
True, but this is what I see on GNU/Linux in "(dir) Top", at the top:
* Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
and in the "Texinfo documentation system" section:
* Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
The former is from the Emacs source tree, and the latter duplicate
is from /usr/share/info/.
> Even if you convert the file names in DIR entries to absolute form
> (which I think is wrong, see below), there are cross-references to
> other manuals inside each manual, which all use non-absolute file
> names; they are looked up using the same search order as described
> above. That way lies madness.
I think it's more wrong when clicking on the link in the
"Texinfo documentation system" section visits the Info file
from the Emacs source tree instead of the Texinfo installation
in /usr/share/info/.
> Emacs does try to arrange Info-directory-list in the order that makes
> some sense when there are duplicates (see the doc strings of this and
> the related variables). That logic should mostly work, but if it
> doesn't, I see no way around it except for the user to customize the
> list or to re-arrange her Info directories.
There is no problem with `Info-directory-list' where the
Emacs source location takes precedence over /usr/share/info/.
This is correct.
> Converting the file names into absolute ones means we diverge even
> more from the stand-alone Info reader, and effectively abandon any
> attempt to remove duplicate entries, instead _forcing_ the user to
> have duplicates. I don't think this is a good idea, because the
> underlying problem is eventually that of the user or the sysadmin.
The problem with removing duplicates is its heuristics that is too
unpredictable and ad-hoc. Sometimes it leaves duplicates not removed,
and sometimes removes non-duplicates, e.g. I see that it removed the
second entry from these lines in `dir':
* _exit: (libc)Termination Internals.
* _Exit: (libc)Termination Internals.
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Juri Linkov, 2011/11/01
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/01
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/01
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Juri Linkov, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Drew Adams, 2011/11/02
- bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory, Andreas Schwab, 2011/11/02