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Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:20:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?
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On 2014-07-09 17:28, Keith Christian wrote:
There are other packages that require a bit of time post-install, such
as the texlive package. Having the man-db package update the DB
immediately after install sounds like a good idea, even if it takes a
few minutes.
We're talking 20 minutes or more, which is IMO excessive.
Else, end users that aren't familiar with re-creating the DB may be
discouraged at not finding something in the man pages.
That, or else use a non-blocking method of printing a message with the
DB creation command line.
There is another issue: creating it during man-db's postinstall only
helps for the manpages installed as of then; any pages added or updated
afterwards won't get into the DB. There is a way we could handle that
(similar to _update-info-dir), but only if DB generation is faster.
Yaakov
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