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Charles Wilson wrote:
> 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.

  I also lost a bunch of my info page indexing after the last update, but I
haven't looked into what's going on yet.  I'm just sure that "info autoconf"
used to work and now I have to type "info autoconf2.63".

    cheers,
      DaveK

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