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Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?
- From: Keith Christian <keith1christian at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 16:28:12 -0600
- Subject: Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?
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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.
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.
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Chris J. Breisch <chris.ml@breisch.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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