[arch-general] Dealing with Info documentation
Hello Archlinux, I like reading documentation in the Info format (especially when it is the prefered / only form of documentation). However, Archlinux decides to strip by default the Info documentation from its packages. I am not going to contest that decision, but I'd like to install Info docs. Now, what would be the "good" way to do it ? Installing mannually Info packages ? Patching and locally rebuilding the packages for which I want the documentation ? Creating a PKGBUILD that will install a bunch of docs ? It seems this is the way to go. But what will happen if Arch ever decides to include Info files, how are conflicting files going to be handled ? -- Fred
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin@resel.fr> wrote:
Hello Archlinux,
I like reading documentation in the Info format (especially when it is the prefered / only form of documentation). However, Archlinux decides to strip by default the Info documentation from its packages. I am not going to contest that decision, but I'd like to install Info docs.
Now, what would be the "good" way to do it ? Installing mannually Info packages ? Patching and locally rebuilding the packages for which I want the documentation ? Creating a PKGBUILD that will install a bunch of docs ? It seems this is the way to go. But what will happen if Arch ever decides to include Info files, how are conflicting files going to be handled ?
-- Fred
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keeping_Docs_and_Info_Files -- Ryan W Sims
I recall a recent thread in arch-dev-public about a new policy about info docs; I think devs decided to include info docs in the new packages, but I'm not 100% sure. -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB
Hello, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> writes:
I recall a recent thread in arch-dev-public about a new policy about info docs; I think devs decided to include info docs in the new packages, but I'm not 100% sure.
After some manual searching, I found the following thread : [arch-dev-public] OMG info pages Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com Tue Apr 22 13:05:12 EDT 2008 -- Fred
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin@resel.fr> wrote:
Hello,
Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> writes:
I recall a recent thread in arch-dev-public about a new policy about info docs; I think devs decided to include info docs in the new packages, but I'm not 100% sure.
After some manual searching, I found the following thread :
[arch-dev-public] OMG info pages Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com Tue Apr 22 13:05:12 EDT 2008
Here's the link: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-April/005920.html (it also continues into May). Doesn't look like anything's been decided. FWIW, the gnu info docs are all available online, or you can download them in various formats. I prefer HTML browsing to info, myself, but some people really like info. -- Ryan W Sims
Hello, Oops, I accidently hit the send button... Sorry for the previous almost empty message. Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> writes:
I recall a recent thread in arch-dev-public about a new policy about info docs; I think devs decided to include info docs in the new packages, but I'm not 100% sure.
After some manual searching, I found the following thread :
[arch-dev-public] OMG info pages Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com Tue Apr 22 13:05:12 EDT 2008
The conclusion seemed to be, indeed, to include info pages, but there wasn't a clear "let's change the default". Well, the texinfo package (last updated on May 22nd) still doesn't include its own documentation. Ryan Sims suggested that I rebuilt packages in order to get the doc, is that really the way to go? -- Fred
2008/6/13 Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin@resel.fr>:
Hello,
Oops, I accidently hit the send button... Sorry for the previous almost empty message.
Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> writes:
I recall a recent thread in arch-dev-public about a new policy about info docs; I think devs decided to include info docs in the new packages, but I'm not 100% sure.
After some manual searching, I found the following thread :
[arch-dev-public] OMG info pages Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com Tue Apr 22 13:05:12 EDT 2008
The conclusion seemed to be, indeed, to include info pages, but there wasn't a clear "let's change the default". Well, the texinfo package (last updated on May 22nd) still doesn't include its own documentation.
Ryan Sims suggested that I rebuilt packages in order to get the doc, is that really the way to go?
There are -info packages in Community for most popular software e.g. coreutils-info. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
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Alessio Bolognino
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Frédéric Perrin
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Roman Kyrylych
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Ryan Sims