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