Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> I’m thinking we could get rid of the mandb hook. Yes, please! > 1. Provide a ‘man’ wrapper or modify the ‘man-db’ package such that > the database gets built on the first use of ‘man -k’, unless it’s > already up-to-date. > > 2. Add a phase in gnu-build-system.scm that creates a per-package > database. Change the mandb profile hook such that all it needs to > do is “concatenate” all these GDBM databases (which should be much > faster than browsing all the man pages as it currently does). Either of these seem fine to me. I think option 2 would be nicer as we don’t need to modify “man” and most of the work is done ahead of time. I don’t know if these individual mandb database *can* simply be concatenated. If this turns out to be much more complicated I think we should just go with option 1. -- Ricardo
