[arch-general] Dealing with Info documentation

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/6/13 Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin at resel.fr>:
> Hello,
>
> Oops, I accidently hit the send button... Sorry for the previous almost
> empty message.
>
> Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml at 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.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)