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doc-base Manual
doc-base
Some time ago, there was a big discussion on the Debian mailing lists about the preferred documentation format in Debian. The discussion showed clearly that people have very different opinions on that topic and thus, we'll have to implement a flexible solution.
The doc-base package tries to implement such a flexible solution:
Every Debian package that provides online documentation (other than manual
pages) will register these documents to doc-base via the
install-docs script (see Registering Documents Using
install-docs, Section 2.4) at installation time and
de-register the manuals again when the package is removed.
Since all manuals will eventually be registered, doc-base can also
be used to solve another outstanding problem: Debian currently has three
different online documentation systems, doc-central,
dwww and dhelp. Each system has advantages and
disadvantages, thus doc-base supports all of them. The system
administrator can choose which implementation he/she prefers.
Additionally doc-base registers the documentation with scrollkeper, thus making
it possible to view the manuals using programs like yelp or
khelpcenter.
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