From kde-devel Wed Feb 28 23:43:06 2001 From: Cristian Tibirna Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:43:06 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: compressed info OK? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=98340371825665 On Wednesday 28 February 2001 16:23, nbecker@fred.net wrote: > Sorry if it violates FHS, but really it would be better if kde would > tolerate it. The truth is that info has evolved. Originally it was > created by emacs. Then xemacs adopted a different convention. Then > we started automatically creating dir. We should tolerate mixed > systems. If I start with RH7 RPM and install a few .tar.gz, it should > KDE still find all the info files. You could make a good argument > that if /usr/info/dir exists and is blank then you don't expect to see > any info pages for that directory - but I would still expect that > /usr/share/info would work, and /usr/local/info - because on a mixed > system that's what you're going to wind up with. > Errr, KDE has nothing to do into this. I think (I hope I'm not wrong) it uses the underlying info system and its configuration, as provided by the system. Using the textmode info application works correctly? IS there a /etc/infodir file in your system? What does it contain? Etc. etc. -- Cristian Tibirna .. tibirna@sympatico.ca PhD Student .. ctibirna@giref.ulaval.ca .. www.giref.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna KDE contact - Canada .. tibirna@kde.org .. www.kde.org >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<