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
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