Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com> writes:

  > Actually, you can configure info to search more than one directory for
  > info files.   That said, I think from a user's perspective the
  > distinction between info on packages and info on standard system
  > utilities is going to be more than a little bit counterintuitive.

No more counterintuitive than man pages being in different trees.

I think /usr/local/share/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/pkg/share/info
is just fine. Emacs can certainly handle multiple info trees.
If other info readers can't, then they should be fixed.

Ian