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

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Brian J. Fox wrote:

> 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?

I didn't say we should remove it.  In fact, I said quite the opposite
(in a previous message): that I don't like removing existing features
unless they get in our way.  And `localdir' doesn't get in our way, at
least not in the context of this discussion.  (The problem was with
dir.info, not with localdir.)