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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:16:27 +0100
> 
> > So if a package installs 'dir' in a separate directory, that is OK, I
> > think.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> The only issue is that when installing packages with Guix (or Stow I
> suppose), the union of all these prefixes is computed, leading to a
> symlink tree that has only one ‘dir’.  But Guix doesn’t have specific
> knowledge about ‘dir’ file handling; it just picks up one of the
> colliding ‘dir’ files and emits a warning.
> 
> Obviously it could be taught to ignore ‘dir’ files altogether, or these
> packages could be changed to not install it.
> 
> What would be most in line with the spirit of Info and standard
> GNU practice?

I think ignoring 'dir' is TRT in this case.  But since I know nothing
about Guix and don't speak for the Texinfo project, I suggest to wait
for Karl to give the definitive answer.