From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>, pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com>
Cc: 39272-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39272: `man -H` doesn't use absolute path to groff
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:09:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h7ponewr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zh3idynk.fsf@gmail.com>
Hi Maxim,
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:48, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I go into a guix environment containing groff however, it works.
>> Looking at the command `man -H` tries to use, it needs an absolute path
>> to groff.
>
> I looked into this but it turns out that our man-db package is carefully
> crafted not to refer to the full groff package to reduce its closure
> size by more than half.
>
> I think you'll have to live with installing groff manually to get the
> HTML feature, or alter the man-db definition to your particular needs.
>
> If this issue comes back often, we could revisit this choice and use the
> full groff, which would mean adding about 50 MiB to the closure of the
> bare-bones.tmpl system.
I do not know if it is related but #38838:
<http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38838>
All the best,
simon
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2020-01-24 20:34 bug#39272: `man -H` doesn't use absolute path to groff pkill9
2020-11-15 22:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-17 16:09 ` zimoun [this message]
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