I'm new on the team, but I agree. Pulling all the various Linux
documentation into one comprehensive library would be a very good thing.
Like you, I came up the ranks from Slackware, etc., and I know where to
look, but for newcomers, the amount of "stuff" on a typical Linux
installation can be overwhelming. I thing all the tools we need are out
there for conversion/viewing, we just need to index it and pull it all
together. Should not be a huge undertaking. I'm adding it to my notebook
as something folks would like to see.
Stew Benedict
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Don Head wrote:
> they're not installed? Well, put a temporary placeholder
> where they should be that says something like, "This
> documentation package is not installed. Please insert
> your Mandrake CD-ROM and install the blah-blah.rpm
> package".
>
> Man pages, you say? There's quite a few man2html
> programs out there, I took one and modified it for my own
> personal use quite a while back. The one I have does it
> on the fly, so you don't have to have a static set of
> HTML files.
>
> Mandrake developers, on your TODO list, could you please
> add an item to work on a way of using the "Doc" icon to
> integrate all the different forms of Linux documentation
> that you install?
>
