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On Aug 3 22:36, waterlan wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schreef op 2014-07-30 17:52: > >Chris, ping? > > It is summer vacation time... True. > >On Jul 22 11:12, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >>Chris, > >> > >>There are a few issues with the current man-db setup: > >> > >>1) the cache is not strictly necessary for operation of man(1); > >> > >>2) mandb -c is quite slow with a large number of manpages (~20min on my > >>system) > >> > >>3) generating the cache only during man-db postinstall doesn't help for > >>manpages updated or added between man-db releases. > >> > >>Therefore, we need to discuss further how to best handle the man-db > >>cache. In the meantime, to help avoid user complaints, could you ship a > >>new release without the postinstall/preremove? > >> > >> > > I agree. The indexing should be removed from the post install. Yes, that seems a bit too heavy for the postinstall. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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