On 18 October 2015 at 19:05, Glenn Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Not everyone installs programs via middlemen distributors all the time. They may download and install a release tarball directly. Evidently it's a problem for some people, sometimes. For example, you might install a Texinfo release with an older version of info.info included and overwrite an up-to-date version that came with the version of Emacs you're using.
