Re: Installing info manuals without cluttering my profile.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hi Arnaud,

I have a very superficial understanding of Texinfo, but I thought it relied on 
'directory' files and not just collections of raw .info files.  In Guix, these 
are generated by a profile hook.

From 
<https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Other-Info-Directories.html>:

> The standalone Info reader merges any files named dir in any directory listed 
> in the INFOPATH variable into a single menu presented to you in the node 
> called ‘(dir)Top’.

All I know is that there is no 'dir' file in $(guix build emacs)/share/info.  I 
think that a package shipping one directly would be wrong.

Were I in your position, I would not manually mess around with environment 
variables (which is also 'clobbering' your main environment!), but instead 
maintain a separate Guix profile for my info manuals.


Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.