From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I5yLA-0007pf-1W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:27:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l646QZ5B015485; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 06:26:35 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l646M9HK010688 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 06:22:10 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d32so4417632pye for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:22:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cZawuDuePGpz+ScNCocYl/VyLvIkr4ybBWaY+wwTvXsoWYeTDCKQQYS6I/gHYWT8r8Im4sCrAmSmytNcHJhFM9dy5vuXcuZXPyT3jbo9GCpssIKixBm00zSyeQMBAHV1wKoEWAQ8M8yBvBm9BOtKV2Iid9N/0TMakTK8N2+/N2M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pY+6sAhpnMkcEnbWy3g+e3sF7/rWB2rXbnuHSsSSmesg+6O0XzfkeHr+1QydC9XL/sHLdG33h6j9xSbaqkYD9pRk8MSQ3PyZ1vNvvF+domCVJfX/9LzRqvNVCl57NlWNR5CJLDUgqTbzPT5Jg7tIt18qh5ovr+DedBxLzaQY2BQ= Received: by 10.64.143.12 with SMTP id q12mr12305584qbd.1183530129358; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.251.15 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 23:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8cd1ed20707032322g2cb655car705fe549c92438b4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 18:22:09 +1200 From: "Kent Fredric" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel? In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50707031519w73abc638qb001cc5e9bb64d88@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9acccfe50707031519w73abc638qb001cc5e9bb64d88@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6871e81f-854c-4c8e-92e0-cabddbe2fcce X-Archives-Hash: 93495f89e5b9b12bbd26a5540564be08 On 7/4/07, 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. > > 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? > > Current script attached. > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > > debian have a similar and much nicer tool called dwww which merges all html-doc, htmlized infopages, and htmlized manpages into one uniform system. I think gentoo being better should have an equivelant. But as of yet, no such equivelant exists, which I think is sad, as in my experience, the documentation available to gentoo as a whole is /much/ superior to that on competing distros I have encounted. -- Kent ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x| print "enNOSPicAMreil kdrtf@gma.com"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}' -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list