On 16-07-18 12:18 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
While info might have a few useful features, my main gripe with it is that to process an info page, you need to pull in texinfo. This in turn pulls in TeX Live as a dependency. TeX Live is a multi-gigabyte package. man (mostly*) only needs [gnt]roff, and that's tiny by comparison.
I know disk space is considered cheap but I object on principle to pulling in massive amounts of files as dependencies to do a simple job, or one that I only need to do on a limited basis. Sometimes the dependencies pulls in a lot of stuff I have no plans to ever use.
It has been a while since I used info. In the past I found it wasn't easy to figure out which keys I needed to hit to navigate the menus and access the information I wanted. With a man page I can do a quick search using a command line key I use in vi.
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