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

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Frédéric Perrin wrote:

Hello,

Alessio Bolognino writes:

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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

2008/6/13 Frédéric Perrin :

Hello,

Oops, I accidently hit the send button... Sorry for the previous almost empty message.

Alessio Bolognino 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 :

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[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)