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Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: info: INFOPATH interpretation severely flawed
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 10:25:36 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Left-overs from previous installations can easily break that assumption.

This is precisely what I'm asking to be fixed, because ...

> IOW, this will work reliably only if "someone" (a person) is carefully
> managing her installations, making sure there's only one instance of
> each manual in all the directories mention in INFOPATH

... this is
  1. not a practical assumption, and
  2. is against the spirit of the GNU standards, which allow any program
     to be installed in any location (via configure option --prefix).

Bruno




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