Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Installation of PDF/PS/DVI and HTML files Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:24:23 +0200 Lines: 28 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87lh9bu6w2.fsf@gnu.org> <20151203151351.GT27325@eeg.ccf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1449221091 13939 208.118.235.17 (4 Dec 2015 09:24:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org, 806945@bugs.debian.org, Maria Valentina Marin To: Greg Wooledge Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 14 Frimaire an 224 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x3D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <20151203151351.GT27325@eeg.ccf.org> (Greg Wooledge's message of "Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:13:54 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11944 Greg Wooledge skribis: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:08:13PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> Given that the GCS suggests installing only the Info version of the >> manual by default (info "(standards) Standard Targets") > >> What do you think? > > I think that's a stupid suggestion. The de facto standard for "make" > followed "make install" on a Unix-like system is to install man pages. > If there's an info page, I have no objection to installing that as well, > but to omit the standard man pages by default is ridiculous. Agreed; apologies for being unclear. As Mathieu wrote, I am of course fine installing man and Info manuals by default, like GNU packages generally do. The suggestion I make is to not install PDF/PS/DVI and HTML files by default. This would comply with the GCS and user expectations, and also sidestep the bit-for-bit reproducibility issues that generating those PDF/PS/DVI/HTML files entails. What do you think? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.