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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
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 13:44:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXg+aa/etPJZu5L8@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211026173328.21511-1-ludo@gnu.org>

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?




  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-26 17:52 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 [this message]
2021-10-26 21:50   ` Ludovic Courtès
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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