brainstorming for UDS-N - Performance - disk footprint

[Stéphane Graber]

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 19:38 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
> Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
> 

Would be pretty nice having that automatic web fallback do on-disk
caching, so when you are offline you can at least access all the
manpages you looked at recently.

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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