Info warnings
OK, for quite a few betas Info has been pretty insistent in throwing
warnings in my face. I was kind of hoping this would be resolved, so
I stayed silent. However, it is not getting solved, so I have to
speak up.
The warning is this:
(1) (info/notice) Outdated info dir file: /usr/local/info/dir
Of course, I don't even have permission to modify the
/usr/local/info/dir file, and neither has any of the users on the
machine I run XEmacs on. So, the warning will be seen by all of them,
and likely many more of our users in the world.
What is the *purpose* of this warning, anyway? Warnings should inform
the user of a condition he/she should remedy. I don't see how I could
remedy this -- even if I bug my sysadmin into updating `dir', it will
get outdated the first time he installs another package. I don't even
see why I *should* remedy this situation, because XEmacs appears
perfectly able to deal with the situation.
I believe my situation is not unique to me, as others on this list
used to complain in pretty much the same way (Jan Vroonhof and Mike
Sperber to name some, unless I am misremembering.) So, I would like
to ask the person who introduced the warning to take it out, or give
us a good reason why it should remain.
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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