RE: [Cooker] [discuss] HOWTOS

[Geoffrey Lee]

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> Yes, in the menu there's Help/Howto's, which brings up Netscape with the
> html-Howto's.
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> However, that's true that it is sometimes hard for newbies to discover the
> place for documentation for packages ; and also, once you know it, it's
> not easy to browse in it if you don't like the command line tools. Most
> users are not extreme-geeks :-).
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>
> I would add, to be more general, that some packages are bringing man
> pages, some others info pages, some others only a text-faq, some others,
> html documentation, etc.
>
> It is true that it would be better to be easily informed, say, given a
> package name, what sort of help/information system is available.
>
>
> Anyone thinking this may be a good idea / anyone having an idea how we
> could realize that ?





a easy way is to write a frontend rpm -qal or something to check fro a list
of documents avaialble on the system. the usual search directories should be
included of course, i.e. /usr/doc /usr/info.




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> Guillaume Cottenceau
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