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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:51:43
Message-Id: 443805CF.7060103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs by Simon Stelling
1 Simon Stelling wrote:
2 > Graham Murray wrote:
3 >
4 >> Fabian Neumann <fab1206@××××××××××.org> writes:
5 >>
6 >>> What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version
7 >>> of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of
8 >>> course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions of docs
9 >>> installed. The first format coming to my mind would be:
10 >>
11 >>
12 >> What would be even nicer would be if it could create and maintain an
13 >> html index, for example at /usr/share/doc/index.html, to all package
14 >> html documentation in a similar way to that which gnu info maintains
15 >> the top level index to all info documentation on the system.
16 >
17 >
18 > This would be a very cool feature. Not for portage though. Portage is a
19 > package manager, and a package manager has nothing to do with generating
20 > indexes of HTML files.
21 >
22
23 Yes this is why we created phase hooks :) Portage shouldn't symlink
24 docs, but adding scripts to do so should be relatively simple ;)
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