Gavin Smith wrote: >> I'm sure there are many systems where Texinfo is installed and Emacs is not. >> How are people on those systems supposed to learn how to use the >> stand-alone info reader? > > It has its own manual. It doesn't have a tutorial, though. This would > have to be added. It shouldn't be hard to cover the absolute minimum > needed to be able to navigate through the rest of the manual.
info.info is obviously written to benefit users of both Emacs info and stand-alone info. It seems weird to me to delete it from Texinfo just for the sake of a distribution packing issue that i) doesn't occur on Debian-based systems (http://debbugs.gnu.org/14064#30) ii) was solved two-years ago on RedHat-based systems in the rpm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=927996#c11 If I were packaging Emacs for a distribution (let me randomly say SUSE), I'd resolve this issue in the packaging step. But I'm just repeating myself (http://debbugs.gnu.org/14064#33). Obviously it's your decision.
