On Sunday 31 March 2013 01:59:52 Mike Frysinger wrote:
it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system. if people
want `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages want
`makeinfo`, they can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category (100 by
a rough survey of random
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote:
people seem happy with this, so i'll have the release team do a test build and
see how it goes.
++
If any of the system packages are going to pull in texinfo then it
really should have a use flag for the perl-requiring
On 03/31/2013 01:59 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
personally, i've never found info pages usable.
ditto.
it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system. if people want
`info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages want `makeinfo`, they
can DEPEND on it -- few fall into
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote:
the new texinfo-5.x series has rewritten makeinfo in perl. the main `info`
program is still in pure C.
when it comes to packages installing .info pages, it's largely limited to the
GNU projects as the format has never
On 31/03/2013 07:59, Mike Frysinger wrote:
it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system. if people
want
`info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages want `makeinfo`, they
can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category (100 by a rough survey of
random Gentoo
the new texinfo-5.x series has rewritten makeinfo in perl. the main `info`
program is still in pure C.
when it comes to packages installing .info pages, it's largely limited to the
GNU projects as the format has never really caught on. many of those projects
also install man pages.
