Re: texinfo infofiles

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 11/25/23 04:03, Chielllo Boss wrote:
> Dear debian users / team, defenders of the free world, titans of the 
> digital age,
>
> A new install of debian does not contain texinfo by default.
> After installing texinfo, many of the info files are missing.
> Only after reinstalling a package, the corresponding info file will be 
> installed.
>
> I have not found a wiki page about the info utility on the debian wiki,
> nor found information about installing all info files of installed 
> packages in a reasonably easy manner.
> This may be because the search term "info" is not very useful on most 
> browsers.
>
> I'm not sure if you consider this a problem, or what the best solution is.
> Perhaps an easy solution exists, which I'm missing and can't find.
> I'll be so brave (with my limited knowledge) to propose creating a wiki 
> page for the info utility,
> where problems like these can be covered.
You may want to look at pinfo, its a better organized version altho 
neither it seems is getting a lot of tlc. I prefer a well written 
manpage myself, but even that is getting rarer.
> With kind regards,
> Machiel

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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