On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:32:20PM -0500, patric conant wrote: > "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.
Note that in the meantime, makewhatis is still developed and maintained. (and the version in OpenBSD dates from... 2000) Hoping that mandocdb finally becomes fast enough to become usable... the previous db back-end was catastrophically slow and generated very large output...
