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 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 time portage installs a new version of Python. > > 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 coming to my mind would be: > > /usr/share/doc/python-docs-latest -> /usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.4.2 > > If that's impossible because of some Linux standards (I'm really not > familiar with POSIX, LSB, File System Hierarchy or stuff like this) we > could use a special directory for this, maybe /usr/share/doc/.latest or > /usr/share/portage/latest-docs or something similar -- you get the point. > > We could of course make this optional with a USE flag. In face we have > already the symlink flag that does basically the task for the kernel > versions. I don't know if it'd be clever to use it or if we should > consider introducing "symlink-docs" for this. > > I hope this informal proposal initializes a discussion and I would be > very happy to see it in some standardized way in future *-doc-ebuilds. > > Thanks, > Fabian. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
