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On 7/3/07, Naga <nagatoro@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 00:19:14 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to |
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> make |
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> > this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that? |
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> See DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR in make.conf (man page I think, or .example) |
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Thanks, I was able to track it down from that hint. |
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For the record: |
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Read about it in "man make.conf". |
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The description there is quite sparse, and I haven't done any emerges since |
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I set it, |
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so I'm not sure exactly how it works. I think it just sets |
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version-independent symlinks, |
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and leaves it up to you whether to bookmark them. |
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Unless there's more going on, I'm going to prefer my little script. It |
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builds a web page |
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with current links, organized by package. I run it in a cron job several |
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times a week, |
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so it's pretty much up-to-date. These are all listed unless they are |
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linked from another |
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index.html higher in the directory structure. This makes most of the |
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entries pretty clean, with |
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a few notable exceptions: boost, java, apache, drscheme, python-docs and |
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mplayer among the packages I have. I'll probably tweak these when I get |
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some time. |
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For me the main advantage is in doing a quick check to see if a given |
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package actually has |
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any "index.html" files anywhere under /usr/share/doc. Just browsing to the |
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index |
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file can be a pain sometimes, and my patience is usually thinner than usual |
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when |
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I'm desperately seeking documentation. |
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So: am I the only one who likes this? |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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