Re: Intent to adopt: info
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:24:12PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> > It produces info, the standalone info browser
>
> Speaking of which, it would be nice to have a something for info like
> /usr/bin/pager or /usr/bin/editor are plain text files, i.e. a single
> generic name for "open an info browser at this node of this file", allowing
> the local system administrator to choose a particular info browser (e.g.
> "info", "jed-sl" or "pinfo").
Christian Kurz contacted me on this subject too.
How do other alternative systems work, like make/pmake, gcc/egcc,
irc/epic/others? I could rename GNU info to ginfo, and set up
alternatives, but what to do with older versions? (we don't want
to have old /usr/bin/info binary overwritten by a symlink or something)
How about having all packages that provide info-browser (are these
three all?) check for -x /usr/bin/info in their preinst scripts,
and move it to /usr/bin/ginfo (and then setting up the symlinks
in other scripts)?
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