From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11144 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2014 06:21:02 -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 11085 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2014 06:20:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qc0-f179.google.com Received: from mail-qc0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-qc0-f179.google.com) (209.85.216.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:20:56 +0000 Received: by mail-qc0-f179.google.com with SMTP id x3so7501399qcv.10 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:20:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.46.70 with SMTP id j64mr74091683qga.27.1404973254166; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net. [24.79.212.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id d3sm90491177qad.43.2014.07.09.23.20.52 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53BE30C5.7080508@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:21:00 -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> <53BC89E9.2040303@cygwin.com> <1905321742.20140708202953@breisch.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00122.txt.bz2 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. 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