From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7872 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2014 07:30:46 -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 7815 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jul 2014 07:30:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (HELO smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl) (194.109.24.33) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:30:39 +0000 Received: from [192.168.178.27] (waterlander.xs4all.nl [83.160.52.146]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s6B7UYYe080417 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:30:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from waterlan@xs4all.nl) Message-ID: <53BF929D.1050904@xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:30:00 -0000 From: Erwin Waterlander 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> <53BE30C5.7080508@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <53BE30C5.7080508@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00130.txt.bz2 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/ -- 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