Re: Bug#793067: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

[Gavin Smith]

On 4 August 2015 at 16:44, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 15:27:51 +0100
>> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Karl Berry <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>>       Texinfo <address@hidden>, Rob Browning <address@hidden>
>>
>> Suppose there are two emacs installations, one as /usr/bin/emacs,
>> which is Emacs 23, and the other /usr/local/bin/emacs, which is Emacs
>> 24. Then there'd be /usr/share/info/{elisp.info,emacs.info},
>> describing Emacs 23, and
>> /usr/local/share/info/{elisp.info,emacs.info}, describing Emacs 24.
>
> I'm saying that manuals that don't have any executables will be in
> trouble.  If 'texinfo' and 'elisp' and 'org' do not worry you, think
> about 'standards.info' and its ilk.

standards.info is likely under /usr/share/info, which would likely be
in INFOPATH anyway.

> In any case, it makes little sense to me to complicate the
> installation of binaries and their upgrade, and make your PATH longer,
> just to arrive at a solution we can already have -- separating just
> the manuals and having the corresponding directories on INFOPATH.

You can extend INFOPATH without extending PATH.

I don't have much more to say than what I said here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2015-07/msg00062.html,
about documentation for programs not in the PATH.