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.
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