Re: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

[Karl Berry]

    > * my wish list: support of sub directories and links within subdirs
    >         in this case selecting a link would *first* search for the

Hmm.  Sadly, I just cannot comprehend -- this seems like an
unspecifiable, unmanageable, mess.  I expect I'm missing something.

Officially supporting subdirectories, and figuring out what that
actually means, does not seem like a win to me.  Just the opposite.  For
one thing, it seems like cross-manual references will once again lose by
design, and having spent years working out a scheme to make them
resolve, that does not thrill me.

As far as I can see, Debian is creating the "problem" by distributing
two different versions of Emacs at the same time.  So it seems to me the
answer should come at the same level: Debian could have two different
directories with the Emacs manuals.  Then no changes are needed anywhere
else.

An /etc/alternatives-like thing could specify the default, and/or mess
around with INFOPATH as Gavin mentions, or whatever.

But heck, it's not up to me.  If Gavin and the Emacs maintainers can
implement whatever you want implemented, more power to all concerned :).
--karl