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Bug 53140 - Port "dwww" to Gentoo or write an alternative
Summary: Port "dwww" to Gentoo or write an alternative
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage Tools Team
URL: http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc...
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Reported: 2004-06-06 09:28 UTC by M. Edward Borasky
Modified: 2004-06-06 12:00 UTC (History)
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Description M. Edward Borasky 2004-06-06 09:28:10 UTC
I do a lot of research where I install a package that looks interesting in "esearch -S", then read through the documentation to see if I can use it. One thing that would be a real help would be if Gentoo had something like Debian's "dwww". What this does is build a web site from all of the documentation it can find -- HTML, man pages and info documents. I don't know all that much about the underlying mechanisms. I'm going to attempt to build it from source and see what kind of Debian dependencies it has. I know for one that it requires "debconf", but I'm not sure whether it needs that just in the initial setup or during operation as well.
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-06-06 12:00:15 UTC
M., it sounds interesting -- but I'd really rather see you do the porting :)

Can you re-open this bug when you have something?