On 26 July 2017 at 00:05, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > > I think it might be worth revisiting the change in man-db 2.4.2-3 to > turn off MAN_DB_CREATES, which means that man doesn't create databases > that doesn't already exist (once the database exists, man should > automatically keep it up to date, although other tools such as apropos > won't necessarily). I made that change in response to a variety of > bugs, so it can't be simply reverted; but that was way back in 2003 > before a great deal of other improvements, so perhaps there are better > ways to address those bugs now. >
Sounds good! Fair, but I think it would be better to fix the problem properly > instead, since man-db does have at least part of the internal tooling > required to do so. > Absolutely. -- https://rrt.sc3d.org <http://rrt.sc3d.org>
