Re: Who owns dir and {standards,configure}.info?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:05:33 +0100
> 
> > 'dir' should not be installed, it should be updated by running
> > install-info.  I suggest to file bug reports against packages that
> > overwrite (as opposed to update) 'dir' with their versions.
> 
> Actually they don’t overwrite it.  GDB/Binutils has:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> install-info: do-install-info dir.info
>       s=`cd $(srcdir); ${PWD_COMMAND}`; export s; \
>       if [ -f dir.info ] ; then \
>         $(INSTALL_DATA) dir.info $(DESTDIR)$(infodir)/dir.info ; \
>       else true ; fi
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Emacs seems to do something similar.
> 
> However, when installing into separate prefixes, they install their own
> ‘dir’, which is annoying in a one-prefix-per-package setup like Guix.

Sorry, I don't understand what prefix has to do with this: you can set
up INFOPATH to mention several directories, and all Info readers will
look in all those directories for the 'dir' file, and create a single
'dir' node by concatenating all of them.

So if a package installs 'dir' in a separate directory, that is OK, I
think.