[arch-dev-public] replace man with man-db?

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 13:05:26 EST 2008


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 18:57 +0100, Andreas Radke wrote:
>> What's your opinion? Should we stay with "man" and fix what will be
>> reported or satisfy the replacement request.
>>
>> I'd like to stay with our man until we can't fix something.
>
> If we want to switch to man-db, note that we have to update the man
> database after installing a package with manpages.
> I'm not comfortable with updating every package in our repository with
> such a command.

Eww, I didn't know that. I much prefer 'man' then if that's the case.
install-info is already annoying enough 8)


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