Hi,
Several Info files have been distributed and installed by several
packages for a long time, notably:
dir – installed by Emacs, GCC, GDB
configure.info – installed by GDB and Binutils
standards.info – installed by GDB, Binutils, Autoconf
The problem is that it makes it difficult as a user to choose the right
version. (Typically with Guix there’s a collision when computing the
union of the installation directories of these packages.)
Seems to me that {configure,standards}.info should be installed
exclusively by Autoconf.
As for the initial ‘dir’, I think it would make sense to have it
installed by Texinfo only.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
