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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2004.2 Feature Requests
From: Brian Friday <bfriday () lasierra ! edu>
Date: 2004-05-03 6:39:44
Message-ID: 4095E930.60504 () lasierra ! edu
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Just a lurker point his nose in but here I go
The contents of "/usr/share/doc" can be found when apache is
installed and the default for the doc directory isn't change
at the url of "= http://localhost/doc". It works great, your
web browser is smart enough to uncompress the gzipped
content so space is saved in a manner which is both elegant
and productive.
As for switching man pages or info pages to html
automatically and or by default I've got to ask the obvious
question of why. The current setup of the doc directory is:
1) useful with apache, less, zcat, lynx etc; 2) doesn't
require a serious amount of effort on the part of the ebuild
maker to put the docs in a location users can get them, 3)
doesn't require transforming those docs into something other
than the original makers intended. By keepings points 2 and
3 intact it means less hoops ebuild makers and maintainers
have to jump through which for my money translates into
happier makers/maintainers and more initial ebuilds
submitted by joe/jane "I want this app" submitter.
Now if your talking "I'm a user who wants to take the
additional step of using man2html and info2html" well
perhaps thats different but thats a second step maybe we can
document for end-users but leave it up to them if they want
to implement it. If there is a serious feeling of adventure
maybe making it a use flag or portage option which acts just
like packages and warns the user that they must run
"man2html" or "info2html" in order to insure that the
man/info files they just installed with the application are
available. Of course like fixpackages a "this could take a
lot of time and or use additional space" warning would be
appropriate.
them's my pennies!
John Nilsson wrote:
> What about /usr/share/doc/, /usr/share/man/ and /usr/share/info/?
>
> app-text/man2html and app-text/info2html seems to be the right tools.
>
> /usr/share/doc/ would need ebuild support to be converted to html
> though.
> my system has 361 dirs in /usr/share/doc/ of which 68 has a html/
> subdir.
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