On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 19:38 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Dustin, > > Dustin Kirkland [2010-10-04 10:05 -0700]: > > I like the idea of moving almost all documentation to the web. > > manpages.ubuntu.com has both an HTML rendering of every manpage, as > > well as the .gz original manpage. The 'dman' utility can remotely > > retrieve manpages from m.u.c and display them on a console. > > This would indeed be great if we could integrate this by default. I > still like the idea of having them locally on a developer box (working > in train/plane/etc), but once you uninstall them, an automatic web > fallback sounds great. > > I added that to > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-n-install-footprint. > > Martin > > -- > Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) >
Would be pretty nice having that automatic web fallback do on-disk caching, so when you are offline you can at least access all the manpages you looked at recently. -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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