"During the first Toronto hackathon, I focused on the SQLite database
backend for mandocdb(8). Currently, mandocdb is still disabled in
OpenBSD-current, but it is intended to become a drop-in replacement for the
makewhatis(8) utility, providing enhanced search capabilities for the
apropos(1) manual page search utility".

This made jump up and down, as a UNIX user on many different platforms I'm
ecstatic that such core system tools and utilities are being actively
maintained and expanded. Thanks to the "Not maintained here, let's borrow
it," effect, in a few years other systems I'm subjected to will likely have
a apropos command that's seen some development since the '80s.

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