Re: A remark about the installation of the man package.

1998-02-19 Thread shaul
 On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:18:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  It seems to me that the man package does not create the required data base 
  immediately after its installation. Rather, it let a cron job to this work 
  when it is schedualed to.
  I think this approch is wrong, since the installer of a new system might
 want to browse the man pages immediately after the system is operatable.

 Actually, it immediately builds the database in the background.

 Adam Klein

For some reason, I had to build it by hand. That's why I had the impression it 
was not built at the first place.
Has anybody else experienced it ?

By the way, I am sorry for the incorrect email address on my first post.



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Re: A remark about the installation of the man package.

1998-02-18 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 04:18:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 It seems to me that the man package does not create the required data base 
 immediately after its installation. Rather, it let a cron job to this work 
 when it is schedualed to.
 I think this approch is wrong, since the installer of a new system might want 
 to browse the man pages immediately after the system is operatable.

Actually, it immediately builds the database in the background.

Adam Klein


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A remark about the installation of the man package.

1998-02-17 Thread shaul
It seems to me that the man package does not create the required data base 
immediately after its installation. Rather, it let a cron job to this work 
when it is schedualed to.
I think this approch is wrong, since the installer of a new system might want 
to browse the man pages immediately after the system is operatable.


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