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Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?


Op 10-7-2014 8:20 Yaakov Selkowitz schreef:
On 2014-07-09 17:28, Keith Christian wrote:
There are other packages that require a bit of time post-install, such
as the texlive package.  Having the man-db package update the DB
immediately after install sounds like a good idea, even if it takes a
few minutes.

We're talking 20 minutes or more, which is IMO excessive.

Else, end users that aren't familiar with re-creating the DB may be
discouraged at not finding something in the man pages.

That, or else use a non-blocking method of printing a message with the
DB creation command line.

There is another issue: creating it during man-db's postinstall only helps for the manpages installed as of then; any pages added or updated afterwards won't get into the DB. There is a way we could handle that (similar to _update-info-dir), but only if DB generation is faster.


Isn't there an option that man-db grows a database cache while you are using it. Such that a page is added to the cache the first time you read a man page. Then you have a small extra delay only the first time. Usually people read only a small percentage of the man pages frequently. Caching all man pages is a bit excessive.

Man-db also displays non-cached man pages. What is the time difference between loading a cached or a non-cached page on Cygwin? Perhaps it's not worth caching.

regards,

--
Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/


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