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Re: html texinfo install?
- From: karl at freefriends dot org (Karl Berry)
- To: rra at stanford dot edu
- Cc: dumas at centre-cired dot fr, bug-autoconf at gnu dot org, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:57:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: html texinfo install?
Doesn't pretty much every distribution use /usr/share/doc for this and
other package documentation at this point?
Sure, many distributions do this, on a per-package per-version basis as
far as I know. /usr/share/doc/emacs-21.2, etc. The distribution makers
do it all themselves, it's nothing specified in the GNU standards.
This would be a pretty huge change for distributions, particularly
since many of them have tools to index /usr/share/doc, web servers
that serve it out to localhost, etc.
They don't have to change anything. All that will happen is, if HTML
installation is enabled at installation, it'll also be available under
(say) /usr/share/texinfo/html/emacs/ -- just like /usr/share/info.
Anyway, on my redhat 9 system, ditto Debian (the two I can easily
check), HTML files are not installed for GNU packages -- precisely
because, I imagine, there is no standard target to do so, exactly what
we're trying to remedy. It's just the ChangeLog, NEWS, README, and
other random files from the distribution.
Anyway, /usr/share/doc/package-version doesn't solve the cross-manual
xref problem, because of the -version and random subdirectory structure.