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.