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Re: slink is gone, goals for potato?



On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 02:15:24PM +0000, Edward Betts wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Mar, 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Michael Bramer wrote:
> > But before that we have to be sure that we are not going to break
> > anything. Examples:
> > 
> > We should probably not even think of moving /usr/info/*   to
> > /usr/share/info/* until the info program supports both directories.
> 
> 
> That looks to me as if info is looking in /usr/share/info as well. I suppose
> the correct way to check would be to have a look in the source.
> 
> How about /usr/doc/info/changelog.gz
> 
> Wed Dec 15 20:08:43 1993  Noah Friedman  (friedman@prep.ai.mit.edu)
> 
>         * info/filesys.h (DEFAULT_INFOPATH): Added /usr/local/info,
>         /opt/gnu/info, /usr/share/info, and /usr/local/share/info.
> 
> So it should have supported /usr/share/info in at least bo, hamm and slink if
> not even further back.

We have not only the info-package to show the pages.

What is with tkinfo, gnome-help, etc?

> > The same could be said for the man program.
> > 

The same must be said for the man pages...


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