Dear Steven, I think some of what you want is available simply. You menitoned:
If I am not mistaken, there is no easy way to have one DocHost serve an entire network, and provide documentation for all the (SuSE) systems on the network.
I haven't tried it but if you read /usr/share/doc/packages/dochost/README.SuSE (path taken from 7.0) it says in the first couple of paragraphs: "The clients no longer have to store documentation locally, meaning less disk space is needed" Once you've set up a dochost server you just need to set the DOC_HOST variable from /etc/rc.config to the full hostname of the server. Then whenever you access /usr/bin/susehelp the doc server is then accessed by web browser. (words paraphrased from documentation). To me that sounds exactly like what you want. As to:
It would be very nice to be able to install a package on a box and have the option to install the related documentation to a central DocHost server.
This isn't so straight forward but would be a good thing to have. Or maybe this is implemented already and I don't know about it? Regards, Jethro P.S. You don't know if applix office is included on SuSE 7.0's DVD do you and if so where? I can't find it.