Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Alec Warner
Simon Stelling wrote: Graham Murray wrote: Fabian Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Jan Kundrát
Graham Murray wrote: > What would be even nicer would be if it could create and maintain an > html index, for example at /usr/share/doc/index.html, to all package > html documentation in a similar way to that which gnu info maintains > the top level index to all info documentation on the system. Y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Graham Murray wrote: Fabian Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions of docs installed. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Carsten Lohrke
I dislike the idea to create lots of symlinks for that reason. But I'm having a bug¹ open at mozilla.org with the goal to create rss feeds from the documentation. Carsten [¹] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332095 pgpBhuQuKgGb2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Have you submitted a bugzilla as a request or suggestion - that's the best way to get it acted on . On Saturday April 8 2006 11:48, Fabian Neumann wrote: > Hi Gentoo devs, > > The Problem: I'd like to have bookmarks for my most used documentation > in my browser. E.g., for the Python documentatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:48:12 +0200, Fabian Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to have bookmarks for my most used documentation in my > browser. Yup, me too. See bug #67130. The feature is optional (you have to set DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR in make.conf). Symlinks are autocreated when there is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Graham Murray
Fabian Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version > of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of > course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions of docs > installed. The first format co

[gentoo-dev] Let portage symlink latest version of installed docs

2006-04-08 Thread Fabian Neumann
Hi Gentoo devs, The Problem: I'd like to have bookmarks for my most used documentation in my browser. E.g., for the Python documentation this would be file:///usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4.2/html/index.html. But as the version number is included in the path, I have to update the bookmark every tim