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