Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

[David Relson]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:27:20 -0700
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> On 7/4/07, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:19:14 -0700
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >
> > > I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of
> > > stuff in /usr/share/doc.  Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I
> > > want to read, but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade through
> > > unindexed directgories and get a browser pointing to the right
> > > thing.  So I wrote a little Perl script to create a top-level
> > > "index.html", organized by package and with a bit of rudimentary
> > > pruning.  I bookmarked it in Firefox, and can get to things a lot
> > > faster now.  I like the result, and will continue to tweak it
> > > here and there.

...[snip]...

> Hmm.  I never intended to run it that way.  I run a cronjob as root,
> with output directed to "index.html".  I'd worry that your way would
> be too slow.

Fair enough :->  

Evidently I misinterpreted "wrote a little Perl script to create
... index.html ... bookmarked it in Firefox" to mean "bookmarked
the scrip"t rather than "bookmarked index.html".

My mistake.

David

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