On Sat, Aug 08, 2026 at 01:14:20AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > Then we could also support looking for translated manuals in other places, > > such as under subdirectories of the infodir. However, one concern is > > excessive disk access on slow file systems. > > There will never be lots of directories, as this is limited by the > number of languages. Conversly theree can be a lot of files in the > directory or directories, but this is the same independentely of the > choice of one directory or one directory per language. > > > just have one directory, or a few directories, all that is required is > > to load each directory listing from disk, and then scan each directory > > listing for a file matching the pattern. If there are language directories > > potentially many more directories need to be loaded: for example, if there > > are three infodirs each of which has 15 subdirectories, the number of > > directories to be loaded increases from 3 to 48 (3 * (15 + 1)) - that could > > impact the user's experience negatively due to an increase in control > > latency. > > It is very unlikely to have 15 subdirectories in all the infodirs, in > practice there would be one with many language directories > (/usr/share/info typically), there would be little reason for other > infodirs to have many languages subdirectories.
You just have to install one manual with 15 translations three times (e.g. under /usr/share/info, /usr/local/share/info, and under the home directory in somewhere like $HOME/local/share/info). help2man.info appears to have at least 10 translations so this does not appear that unrealistic. > > -- > Pat
