Archaic wrote: > In order to make LFS usable in UTF-8 locales, and different man > program was chosen, man-DB. That program requires a database backend. > It can support GDBM or Berkeley DB.
Let me play dumb here for a minute: Why? ;-) Would it be possible to do something similar to what we did with IPRoute2, and just patch (or sed) out the database backend requirement? Or is the database used for more than just storing manpage indexes? Debian (or at least Knoppix) uses man-db, as has already been mentioned in this thread. It runs a daily cron job to do something with this database, and that job seems to iterate through all the manpages on the system. So I believe it's just indexing the pages or something, so that stuff like "man -k" can be fast. But I don't think we would necessarily require that; if we just treat man-db as "man but with builtin hacks for UTF-8 support", and patch out the database requirement, wouldn't that work? Assuming the "patch out" part is feasible, anyway.
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