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 18:45:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXiE7AUsV0f2lB+v@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl3bihfl.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:50:54PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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.
Wow, I never knew about that feature. I figured the database was
necessary for `man foo`.
+1 for this change!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-26 22:46 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
2021-10-26 22:45 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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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