From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9378 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2014 00:16:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9010 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jul 2014 00:16:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qg0-f42.google.com Received: from mail-qg0-f42.google.com (HELO mail-qg0-f42.google.com) (209.85.192.42) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:16:44 +0000 Received: by mail-qg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id e89so5896694qgf.1 for ; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:16:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.24.243 with SMTP id 106mr4781319qgr.11.1404865002190; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net. [24.79.212.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l5sm4700513qaz.33.2014.07.08.17.16.40 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53BC89E9.2040303@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:16:00 -0000 From: Yaakov Selkowitz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find? References: <53BC191A.5020606@gmail.com> <1737600071.20140708190126@breisch.org> In-Reply-To: <1737600071.20140708190126@breisch.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00106.txt.bz2 On 2014-07-08 18:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote: > At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 12:15:22 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 08/07/2014 17:47, Jack Duthen wrote: >>> Question #3 >>> To get a 'man' that works when piped, is there a better way than >>> loading this "random" collection of utilities? >>> >>> Am I the only one to get that problem??? > >> util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was not yet noticed. > >> man was recently changed, so this dependency was likely missed, >> specially as it seems hidden inside the man binary. > > Yes, this is true. I'll add it. I'm collecting a few things together, Careful: right now util-linux requires: perl, so people will complain if it gets pulled as is. I'll attempt to address this soon. > and trying to get the DB creation to work a little faster as well. That would be good, but there are some additional issues which make me think we should drop this from postinstall. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple