Re: texinfo-4.0: Crashes on Red Hat 6.1 system

[Brian J. Fox]

   Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:06:12 +0200 (IST)
   From: Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


   On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Dave Gillespie wrote:

   > I added "localdir" as a home for locally added files, so that the
   > main "dir" could be left intact from the Emacs distribution.  This
   > helps a lot when it comes time to install a new version of Emacs.
   > As I recall, RMS invented a different mechanism to solve the same
   > problem.

   The current solutions for this include:

     (1) put your local DIR file in a separate directory, and add that
         directory to INFOPATH;
   or
     (2) run install-info to add your local items to the main DIR menu.

   Are these two (of which the first is obviously the more convenient)
   good enough?

If someone has an existing installation which relies on "localdir",
why should we break it?  Is the current behavior of GNU Info causing
problems for some of its users?

What is the overriding reason to remove the "localdir" behavior?

Brian
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