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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 51416@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#51416] [PATCH] profiles: Build the man database only if 'man-db' is in the profile.
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:50:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl3bihfl.fsf_-_@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXg+aa/etPJZu5L8@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:44:09 -0400")

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 07:33:28PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The other day Liliana came with a smart idea on IRC: to build the database
>> only when ‘man-db’ is also in the profile.  It’s a good way to not quite
>> make a decision :-), but it’s going to address the main pain point.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
>>From the user's perspective, what would change? Would `man foo` still
> work after installing foo?

Yes.  What wouldn’t work, unless ‘man-db’ is in the same profile, is
‘man -k whatever’:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Documentation.html

On Guix System, the system profile does include man-db by default.

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-26 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-26 17:33 [bug#51416] [PATCH] profiles: Build the man database only if 'man-db' is in the profile Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-26 17:44 ` Leo Famulari
2021-10-26 21:50   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-10-26 22:45     ` Leo Famulari
2021-10-27 10:29     ` Oleg Pykhalov
2021-10-27 14:03       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-06 22:22         ` bug#51416: " Ludovic Courtès

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