Karl> I like the idea of being able to regenerate the dir file from Karl> installed info files much more. And in fact the Texinfo Karl> distribution includes several scripts (fix-info-dir, gen-dir-node, Karl> maybe others) to do just that. None of them ever seemed to be Karl> "installable" quality. If that can be added to install-info Karl> (yikes) or one or another of the scripts made more robust so it Karl> could be a standard installed program, that would be great.
But, for me to consider it a solution, it would have to be run by packages in their post-installs, which means manual edits would be overwritten. Maybe another idea: keep a part of the file explicitly reserved for manual additions, delimit it with some markers. Anything outside is fair game for packages. There is precedent for this in Debian, e.g. the handling of xorg.conf. -- A true pessimist won't be discouraged by a little success. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
