Andrey Bolkonsky wrote on Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 07:47:48PM +0300: > IMHO, texinfo isn't need in most cases, is GPL software and legacy > version....
In most cases, it isn't needed, but in some cases, it is still in use: schwarze@isnote $ ls /usr/share/info/ amdref.info cppinternals.info gdb.info libiberty.info annotate.info cvs.info gdbint.info readline.info as.info cvsclient.info history.info stabs.info bfd.info dir info-stnd.info texinfo binutils.info gcc.info info.info cpp.info gccint.info ld.info So it is not an option to just remove it. > Use man, like! I considered converting all these info documents to mdoc(7) format with texi2mdoc(1), see http://mdocml.bsd.lv/texi2mdoc/ . But it's a non-trivial amount of work. And it is not high priority for the following reasons: - The above manuals are rarely used on OpenBSD in the first place. - None of the above programs are maintained by the OpenBSD project, so having the manuals in the unfamiliar texinfo format is not a manitenance burden because they rarely change. - Even though upstream changes are rarely (if ever) pulled in for these programs, having as little changes as possible in the directories takes from upstream may help porting in the rare case when something is ported. I would welcome having the work done, but i'm not going to do it myself right now. Yours, Ingo
