Re: Status of Debian Policy

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

[snip]

> The simplest solution is to ship html in a different package. This way
> the user will be able to choose to not install the html docs if he/she
> believes info2www is enough.

It might be nice if different types of duplicate documentation could
be identified in the package and only selected types installed, or
generated.  For example, I could set up a system so that all the
documentation installed was HTML: installed directly if present, or
genrated using texi2html, info2www, man2html etc. if not, either on
the fly with dwww or at installation time.  Any unnecessary man pages
or info documentation could be dropped.

I don't really expect to see this soon though.

> IMHO we should not drop .info from the main package, [...]

I have to agree with this.  I quite like Emacs' info reader, and
tkinfo.

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