Once upon a time, Jan Chaloupka <jchal...@redhat.com> said: > there has been a discussion about if we need cache for man-db for users > which use man pages or update system only from time to time and thus > don't need to update cache every day. man-db as it is now depends on > systemd which brings another set of packages. The use case is "I just > want to read man page. So I install man which on the other hand download > another set of packages. I want to read man page and it downloads systemd.".
On the majority of systems these days, is it really an issue to cache man pages anymore? I mean, back when a long man page (thinking about some of the perl documentation for example) could take a while to render, it mattered. Now however, systems are much much faster, and we expect GUI web browsers to render vastly more complicated content in a fraction of a second. Maybe the time has come to just stop caching man pages at all, or at least make that functionality optional (and non-default)? -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
