bug#27933: emacs25: default info dir initialization slow with remote filesystems

[Steve McIntyre]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:41:48PM -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> I've checked yesterday using emacs25 (version 25.1+1-4 in Debian
>> stretch). I guess those changes didn't make it in before that release
>
>Indeed not.

OK, cool - thanks for clarifying!

So, I am still curious about a couple of points from my initial bug
report. Maybe you can help with those too?

>2. Why on earth is emacs checking the info path at all on startup?
>   Shouldn't it wait until info functions are actually called for?
>
>3. The documentation talks about setting INFOPATH in the environment
>   to over-ride the use of this default directory list, but again
>   using strace I can see no change to behaviour here at all if I set
>   INFOPATH

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