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bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:05:39 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
>> I'm not sure what is being discussed. Is it that the two above lines
>> are kept, or that one of the two is removed as a duplicate?
> That it is removed.
>> And why is the other behavior better?
> Because these are 2 different glibc functions.
>> Stefan "To my layman's eyes, the two lines are equivalent, just
>> like "* GDB: (gdb)" and "* Gdb: (gdb)" and should be
>> collapsed into one"
> Evidently, this is not always true. Leaving redundant information is
> a lesser evil than removing non-redundant one, IMO.
I think I'm beginning to understand: the problem is that the "top-level
dir" is used in two very different contexts:
- for interactive use, where it should be shortish and avoid redundancy.
- for non-interactive use, typically to make `info' emulate `man', where
the toplevel `dir' is abused as an index. This only works for
specially built `dir' files and I don't see it used in Debian,
for instance.
The Info-dir-remove-duplicates is clearly meant for the first use and
I think that's the most important use, so if we want to make it handle
the second case we'll have to make sure it doesn't hurt the first.
Stefan
- 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, 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, 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 <=
- 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
- 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, 2011/11/05