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Ken Brown wrote:
> Unfortunately,
> the cygwin package (at least in 1.7.0-58) also provides a very minimal
> /usr/share/info/dir,
> I noticed what I think is a packaging bug:  Both
> cygwin and cygwin-doc provide /usr/share/info/libc.info and
> /usr/share/info/libm.info.

Well, the first packaging bug is that NO package should ever provide
/usr/share/info/dir.

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Chuck

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