Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jérôme Marant wrote: > >> The Project has decided that invariant sections were unacceptable. >> You could help us by talking to GNU people and asking them to remove >> those invariant sections from their documentation. > > Well, this may stand a chance with some GNU maintainers, but with RMS?! > I guess I'd be wasting my time, since he has clearly stated his > opinions about that matter.
You're plain right. >> Newbies usually don't use Emacs. Experienced users are smart enough >> to add non-free to their source.list APT file, and grab docs from there. >> Were are talking about the info documentation. >> >> >> I think that docs are going to be moved to an emacs-docs package and >> emacs21 will suggest it. I don't think it should go to contrib. > > Yeah, after all, the social contract merely states: > > We will never make the system require the use > of a non-free component. > > Now I realize what that means: "The system" does not require the > non-free documentation, although one could argue that its users and > developers probably will require it. Quite sophisticated. Perhaps grabbing documentation from non-free will be a minor inconvenience for many users. We shall see. >> Does C-h C-p points to the documentation (info documentation) or to >> the DOC file ? > > Neither, it points to the file THE-GNU-PROJECT in Emacs' data-directory. > That file is unmodifiable and has to be removed from main. Nothing > really bad should happen though, only some "no such file or directory" > error. Be prepared for some bug reports. Of course. A patch will probably fix this by showing some note. -- Jérôme Marant
