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From: Shyam Mani <fox2mike@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Link to docs in ebuilds
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:29:42
Message-Id: 443DC581.6090704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-doc] Link to docs in ebuilds by Arun Raghavan
1 Arun Raghavan wrote:
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3 > I was just wondering if this has been thought of before -- a lot of
4 > ebuilds have a guide that should be read before/after installation.
5 > For example, anybody emerge'ing bluez will probably want to read the
6 > Gentoo Bluetooth Guide. Does it make sense to do something like this,
7 > then:
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9 Yeah, Yoswink IIRC had a similar plan quite sometime back. Yoswink,
10 would you please share the ideas/details? I'll try digging up IRC logs
11 as well to see if I can come up with anything.
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13 > 1) add a RELATED_DOC variable to ebuilds to point to the related documentation
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15 I'm yet to read through your idea. Will do in a bit.
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17 AFAICS, the docs-team would be fine with this. I think we would need to
18 work out a good plan, and then take it to the ebuild folks/list/IRC and
19 see how we can work it out with them.
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21 I'm quite sure if we have a well thought out idea, people will be
22 willing to think about implementing it.
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24 Regards,
25
26 --
27 Shyam Mani | <fox2mike@g.o>
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Re: [gentoo-doc] Link to docs in ebuilds "Jose Luis Rivero (YosWinK)" <yoswink@g.o>