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Have you submitted a bugzilla as a request or suggestion - that's the best way |
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to get it acted on . |
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On Saturday April 8 2006 11:48, Fabian Neumann wrote: |
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> Hi Gentoo devs, |
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> The Problem: I'd like to have bookmarks for my most used documentation |
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> in my browser. E.g., for the Python documentation this would be |
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> file:///usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4.2/html/index.html. But as the |
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> version number is included in the path, I have to update the bookmark |
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> every time portage installs a new version of Python. |
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> What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version |
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> of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of |
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> course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions of docs |
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> installed. The first format coming to my mind would be: |
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> /usr/share/doc/python-docs-latest -> /usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4.2 |
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> If that's impossible because of some Linux standards (I'm really not |
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> familiar with POSIX, LSB, File System Hierarchy or stuff like this) we |
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> could use a special directory for this, maybe /usr/share/doc/.latest or |
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> /usr/share/portage/latest-docs or something similar -- you get the point. |
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> We could of course make this optional with a USE flag. In face we have |
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> already the symlink flag that does basically the task for the kernel |
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> versions. I don't know if it'd be clever to use it or if we should |
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> consider introducing "symlink-docs" for this. |
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> I hope this informal proposal initializes a discussion and I would be |
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> very happy to see it in some standardized way in future *-doc-ebuilds. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Fabian. |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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