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Hi! |
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>> I did uncomment the line. The problem is that after emerging, the man |
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>> pages of the newly installed package are not in the database |
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>> ("man <new_man_page>" works though, only "apropos" doesn't show it). It |
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>> means either I have to run "makewhatis" myself as root right after |
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>> emerge or I have to wait till cron starts makewhatis.cron somewhere in |
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>> the night. And I think it's a little bit annoying since the info pages |
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>> do get indexed. |
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> I think it would be more irritating if makewhatis was run after every |
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> emerge - on my machine it takes approx. one minute to run. This would |
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> really slow down a large batch of emerges... |
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Well, it could be handled via a variable in make.conf, e.g. if |
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UPDATE_MAN_INDEX is set to '1' then makewhatis is started after |
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emerge, if it set to '0' then it doesn't start after emerge. I think |
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it is feasible. |
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Regards, |
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Renat |
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