Stupid Portage Tricks - DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR

[psykil]

Ever have a package that installs HTML documentation into /usr/share/doc that you want to create a local bookmark to? For example, I find it useful to keep the quick reference page of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (app-doc/abs-guide) open in a tab, and because I sometimes need to work offline I want to link to the local copy instead of a web

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[anonymous]

That's great, thanks a lot!

I just wander why Gentoo still installs docs into /usr/share/doc/${PF}, not ${CATEGORY}_${PN}-${SLOT} or something. That'd save a lot of trouble, I'd say.

Diego wrote about it a year ago, too:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/30/qa-by-disagreement

Thanks

[anonymous]

Excellent tip. Thanks for sharing :)

[anonymous]

Thanks!

Your evil twin

[ext_688676]

I found your evil twin: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/images/mark.png (one of my friends). Isn't the resemblance eerie?