How to setup proper info in Tumbleweed

I am running Aeon and am setting up a distrobox with a Tumbleweed base image of FROM registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/distrobox in my image i run zypper install emacs. When inside emacs I try to view the info pages nothing is shown and after inspecting /usr/share/info I find that there is no dir file which I think explain why no info is shown. After finding the following I want to install install-info which do not look to be avaliable on Tumbleweed so I try to get it using texinfo but this is a huge package and installing it just so I can run install-info makes me think im missing something.

Now my question is what is the recommended way to keep the /usr/share/info/dir updated on Tumbleweed?

What you’re looking for is the info package, I believe.

Keeping the files provided for use with info updated involves (on Tumbleweed) using zypper dup to update your system periodically.

info is similar to man, and the documentation that it makes available is in the packages that provide the functionality.

You can find this out for any file by using rpm -qi --whatprovides <path_to_file>

It was enough to just install the info package and everything worked as expected.

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