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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.

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.