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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:23:44 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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Subject: Re: html files [Re: texinfo changes ready]
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On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:

> I think we could do something similar for the ports installing their
> own html documentation. The html documentation is currently installed
> in more or less random locations and is not always apparent.  What
> about forcing the ports to install their html files in
> /usr/local/share/html/PACKAGENAME/* and use a small utility to
> maintain /usr/local/share/html/INDEX.html? 

I agree, but would lobby for /usr/local/share/doc/html rather
than /usr/local/share/html.

If each package directory contains an index.html file, it is a
simple matter to automagically collect the <title> elements to
build a master index.html.

-john