> I still think it would be a good idea to include all
> of the texinfo files, because they correspond to the contents of
> /usr/share/doc in that more details are given in the texinfo
> documentation than are given in the manpages.  For instance, the gcc
> texinfo docs include detailed porting instructions, vital information
> for anyone who wants to port the OS to a new platform.

... Yet completely irrelevant information for the majority of the
users of the compiler.


Unfortunately, it's *not* easy to include the info files as
"their own" sup distribution, at least if you want to keep them
in their appropriate places in the GNU tree.  Additionally,
since they're not necessary for everyday use, they're gigantic,
and they're available elsewhere, my opinion is "why waste the disk
space."?

We do not now provide a method to use them, and probably won't in
the future, so i don't see it as being "our problem."


However, we *do* need man pages for those utilities...


cgd

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