Re: Info disaster?

Monday, 10 January 2000

        sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

...
 I think the problem in Hrvoje's setup is really that all the
info
 files are gzipped.  Given today's price for disk space, I think
 unpacking them would be the easiest way to fix the problem. 
Oh, I agree with that.  But you can't do that under Debian.  :-(  Just
like you can't ungzip man-pages, files under /usr/doc/ and
/usr/share/doc/, etc. etc.  What a bunch of losers.  :-(

...
 Stephen> If so, shouldn't the only cache we trust be one we
make
 Stephen> ourselves?

 Sure, but in that case, let's abandon dir files entirely. 
Maybe that's exactly what we should do.  Maybe.

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