comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Jan 11 00:17:45 UTC 2013


Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
>> But I'll bite anyway: we hardly need two info readers installed by
>> default, do we?
> 
> Well, I'd agree with that.  The problem (again IMHO) with "info" is that
> it works for emacs users (or at least that's what I guess, I never can
> figure it out), while "pinfo" operates more like a console web browser
> (such as "lynx").
> 
> However, you can't remove "info", because it provides /sbin/install-info
> (which is required by every package that provides info files).
> 
> I still think "pinfo" should stay.

+1, the default "info" is really a PITA to use, pinfo is much better.

        Kevin Kofler



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