Bug 76836

Summary:	portage and gdp integration
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Chris Rebert <gentoo>
Component:	Conceptual/Abstract Ideas	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Chris Rebert 2005-01-05 17:31:48 UTC

When you emerge an ebuild such as Xorg, postfix, etc that has a gdp guide for the package, the url for said guide should be output at the end of the ebuild's emerge. This could also be implemented as a use/features flag that would download and install the guide to a predetermined directory as html or a manpage.
This feature would be useful as gentoo doesn't come with many distro-specific configurators and unless the upstream package includes such a tool, users usually end up reading the conf file's manpage or asking for help on the forums/irc. A lot of the time, the end result is a sub-optimal configuration that one needs to keep glancing at the manpage to edit.
Thank you for your time.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-06 03:30:50 UTC

This should really be done per package that has documentation available. Hence, a specific bug for each package would be better.