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Date:	Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:38:59 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:

> > 4.      Change zippo DSM files *not* to use "install-info" for packages
> > already carefully hand-inserted into the DJGPP "info/dir" file.  Run
> > "install-info" *only* for those packages that already use
> > "@dircategory" commands, and update the hand-crafted DJGPP "info/dir"
> > file to match them.
> 
> Currently zippo runs install-info automatically.

That's not good, I think.  It shouldn't do that unless the DSM file
tells it to.  If it currently cannot pay attention to built-in
commands in the DSM, it should not do that at all.  Or perhaps, as a
stopgap, just print the commands telling the user to run them
manually.

> I'll add this to my list of things to do for zippo. Right now this isn't at
> the top, since I'm working on getting automatic HTTP/FTP downloads with wget,
> which is more important right now IMHO.

I'd rather think that to get the installation procedure DTRT is more
important than to have Web-based upgrades: there are alternative to
the latter, but a messed-up DIR file is much harder to fix, since it
requires the knowledge of an Info format, something most users lack.

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