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From: Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com>
To: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution"
	<guix-devel@gnu.org>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Getting rid of the mandb profile hook?
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:18:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9be935125c7a25c17e78bfc4507d9e5e0f8dfe80@hey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0tw3y15.fsf@inria.fr>

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On December 5, 2020, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> many actions should be done lazily, in particular populating caches.

Absolutely.

> I’m thinking we could get rid of the mandb hook.

Please.

>  1. Provide a ‘man’ wrapper or modify the ‘man-db’ package such that
>  the database gets built on the first use of ‘man -k’, unless it’s
>  already up-to-date.

I vote for this one. Anything work we can defer to make package
operations near-instantaneous will help me make Guix a seamless part of
my computing workflows. As things stand, adopting Guix comes along with
regular "pause to wait for Guix to think about something you probably
don't care about" breaks.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-05 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-05 18:31 Getting rid of the mandb profile hook? Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-05 18:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-05 20:18 ` Ryan Prior [this message]
2020-12-06  0:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-12-08 10:47   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-02-27 13:05 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-03 14:13   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-03 20:50     ` Brice Waegeneire
2021-03-10 10:20       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-02 16:56       ` Ludovic Courtès

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