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Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "Chris J. Breisch" <chris dot ml at breisch dot org>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:37:11 +0400
- Subject: Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system
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Greetings, Chris J. Breisch!
>> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files
>> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb?
> Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add
> that cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man.
Actually, I think it should be added to man obsoleting package, rather than to
an install script of some unrelated package. Even if that package is, in fact,
supercede the first one.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 02.07.2014, <16:35>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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