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Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?


At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 8:16:41 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:

> On 2014-07-08 18:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>> At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 12:15:22 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 08/07/2014 17:47, Jack Duthen wrote:
>>> util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was not yet noticed.
>>
>>> man was recently changed, so this dependency was likely missed,
>>> specially as it seems hidden inside the man binary.
>>
>> Yes,  this is true. I'll add it. I'm collecting a few things together,

> Careful: right now util-linux requires: perl, so people will complain if
> it gets pulled as is.  I'll attempt to address this soon.

Yes, I just noticed that.

>> and trying to get the DB creation to work a little faster as well.

> That would be good, but there are some additional issues which make me
> think we should drop this from postinstall.


I think I'm okay with that.

-- 
 Chris J. Breisch



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