Hrvoje> Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch&gt; writes: >> Hrvoje> OK, for quite a few betas Info has been pretty insistent Hrvoje> in throwing warnings in my face. I was kind of hoping Hrvoje> this would be resolved, so I stayed silent. However, it Hrvoje> is not getting solved, so I have to speak up. Hrvoje> You certainly haven't made changes according to my suggestions, Hrvoje> because I surely wanted the warning to go away, and so did Jan and Hrvoje> Chipsy. Hrvoje> The warning is this: Hrvoje> (1) (info/notice) Outdated info dir file: /usr/local/info/dir >> This is not strictly a warning but a notice. Hrvoje> But it is flashed in my face and I have to press C-x 1 every time I Hrvoje> see it. This is more serious than you might think. Warnings should Hrvoje> *never* be flashed without a good reason for them, or the users will Hrvoje> learn to ignore them. If you believe informative messages should not pop at the user's face (and so do I) maybe this could be a good reason to set the default of `display-warning-minimum-level' to 'warning instead of the current 'info so that only warnings and more severe messages would pop up. [...] Hrvoje> ????????????????????? Hrvoje> How do you expect me to be able to write to /usr/local/info/dir?! I Hrvoje> run XEmacs on a multi-user machine, for Christ's sake! Because you can't su root, log on your server or whatever does not mean nobody can... Most Linux users are their own administrators, other people may have good contact with their administrator, etc... Hrvoje> I don't want to do either of these things. I want the warning to go Hrvoje> away. The message is informative, the user must be notified that what he's seeing is not what is on his dir file. I believe it should stay the default and it is up to anyone to change that behaviour with full knowledge of the fact. I will let Steve arbitrate on this. Oscar