brainstorming for UDS-N - Performance - disk footprint

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Dustin,

Dustin Kirkland [2010-10-04 10:05 -0700]:
> I like the idea of moving almost all documentation to the web.
> manpages.ubuntu.com has both an HTML rendering of every manpage, as
> well as the .gz original manpage.  The 'dman' utility can remotely
> retrieve manpages from m.u.c and display them on a console.

This would indeed be great if we could integrate this by default. I
still like the idea of having them locally on a developer box (working
in train/plane/etc), but once you uninstall them, an automatic web
fallback sounds great.

I added that to
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-n-install-footprint.

Martin

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