Hi, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> I’m thinking we could get rid of the mandb hook. > > Yes, please! I see consensus against that hook. :-) >> 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. It’s “concatenated” in the sense of building the union of all the key/value entries. So it’s not for free either but certainly much less expensive than what we’re doing. I’ll probably take a look at some point, but if another person tired of waiting for the hook would like to give it a try, please do! :-) Ludo’.
