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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 19:55:41 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Karl Berry <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>       Texinfo <address@hidden>, Rob Browning <address@hidden>
> 
> > 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.

What if I have more than one version of it?

> > 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.

That's what I was saying.  Which, to me, means the trick with
INFOPATH=PATH is not the solution for the problem at hand, because an
easier solution exists.

> 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.

I wasn't suggesting anything that would match this description.