Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems

[Karl Eichwalder]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I am not convinced that Info files "belong" in these two places, but
> let's suppose you have put Info files for installed packages in both
> places.  (You can certainly do that if you want to.)

It was meant as an example.  Or think about /usr/share/info/dir and
$HOME/usr/share/info/dir.

> This merging is absolutely necessary.  Since both groups of packages
> are available to an ordinary user, when person runs Info, an ordinary
> user should see an Info dir that lists both groups of packages.

This sounds as it might be desirable to accumulate entries.

> The word "thus" is misleading; it implies that the merging
> of the Info directories is solely responsible for this consequence.
> I don't think that is true, and I think that it would be very hard
> to avoid this consequence.

Why not providing two or more parts:

Manuals in $HOME/usr/share/info
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
* Emacs: ($HOME/usr/share/info/emacs).  The extensible self-documenting
                                          text editor (21.3.50).
* ... and more private docs


Manuals in /usr/share/info
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
* Emacs: (emacs).       The extensible self-documenting text editor (21.2).
* ... other docs coming with the system 

-- 
address@hidden (work) / address@hidden (home):              |
http://www.suse.de/~ke/                                  |      ,__o
Free Translation Project:                                |    _-\_<,
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/             |   (*)/'(*)