Feature proposal: New, Standard Documentation System

[Alphonse Van Assche]

Michael Cronenworth a écrit :
> <cut>
> 5. Global access
>  You should be able to access any and all documentation for all 
> software through a single window, be it X or console, without having 
> to open the corresponding program.
>
6.  a common way to find documentation about a given package. Here is 
what I do when I need to read docs on a given package.

1. rpm -ql pgkname
if there is a man page and/or README and/or .html and/or ... - done!
2. yum list pkgname\*
if there is sub-package named pkgname-doc - done!
3. rpm -qi pgkname
if the URL tag point to upstream web site - open firefox find the 
documentation page - done!
4. fedora-cvs pkgname - hoping that I know the language used and that 
the code is nicely documented ;-) - done!
5. ??

I thing that we can do something to optimize the search of documentation 
of a given package. To be honest I don't have any idea on the best way 
to do that  - but I'm sure that we can do something better.

Just my two cent.

Regards,
Alphonse