Re: [help-texinfo] installation of images with info files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 07:54:05 +0100
> Cc: Per Bothner <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> On 18 October 2016 at 06:40, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I can tell you that I can read the GnuTLS Info manual, which includes
> > images, in Emacs, and I do see the images where they belong, although
> > the image files are in the normal /usr/share/info/ directory, together
> > with the GnuTLS Info files.  Not sure if this is relevant to the issue
> > at hand (I wasn't following this thread closely enough to tell).
> 
> Thanks for the information. The only possible downside of this is that
> different Info files may have images with the same name.

How is that different from 2 manuals having the same name?

IOW, why do we want to impose on the Texinfo system solution of a
problem that basically is a mistake on the part of the manual
author(s)?

One simple solution would be to have all images that belong to the
manual FOO.info to be named FOO-something.png, thus realizing a
poor-man's namespaces.  I see the GnuTLS manual already does that.

If what triggered this discussion is some text in the Texinfo manual,
let's fix the manual to say something more reasonable.