Bug 53140

Summary:	Port "dwww" to Gentoo or write an alternative
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	M. Edward Borasky <znmeb>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	2004.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/dwww.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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?