Re: Dealing with Info documentation

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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Frédéric Perrin
<frederic.perrin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Archlinux,
>
> I like reading documentation in the Info format (especially when it is
> the prefered / only form of documentation). However, Archlinux decides
> to strip by default the Info documentation from its packages. I am not
> going to contest that decision, but I'd like to install Info docs.
>
> Now, what would be the "good" way to do it ? Installing mannually Info
> packages ? Patching and locally rebuilding the packages for which I want
> the documentation ? Creating a PKGBUILD that will install a bunch of
> docs ? It seems this is the way to go. But what will happen if Arch ever
> decides to include Info files, how are conflicting files going to be
> handled ?
>
> --
> Fred
>
>

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keeping_Docs_and_Info_Files

-- 
Ryan W Sims



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