Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Linda Walsh Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Installation of PDF/PS/DVI and HTML files Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 08:28:39 -0800 Lines: 34 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87lh9bu6w2.fsf@gnu.org> <20151203151351.GT27325@eeg.ccf.org> <87io4etw74.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1449246564 27332 208.118.235.17 (4 Dec 2015 16:29:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: 806945@debbugs.debian.org.tlinx.org, Greg Wooledge , bug-bash@gnu.org, Maria Valentina Marin To: Mathieu Lirzin Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Thunderbird In-Reply-To: <87io4etw74.fsf@gnu.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by Ishtar.hs.tlinx.org id tB4GSdBq055244 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 173.164.175.65 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:11946 Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Greg Wooledge writes: >=20 >> 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. >=20 > It would be nice to express your ideas in a polite way. The point was > about achieving a reproducible build, not about droping the man page. ---- Nevertheless, Gnu and others have made similarly well-suggested ideas regarding unix utils and architecture as to possibly leave some people a bit short on patience. =20 >> The de facto standard for "make" followed "make install" on a >> _Unix_-like system is to install man pages. =20 >=20 > For more _GNU_ standards ....[_emphasis_ mine] --- Notice you are comparing 'GNU' (new) standards compared to older and established standards. Many of the newer standards fly in the face of good design and throw-out previous 'best-practices' standards for no other reason than to follow new standards that are not justifiable based on user-utility nor sound computer science. L. Walsh