[SM-Discuss] man-db (Was: Anyone interested in a mlocate spell?)
Kevin Monceaux
Kevin at RawFedDogs.net
Thu Oct 23 16:02:40 EDT 2008
Justin,
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, flux wrote:
> As for the "cosmetic" difference, are you aware that you can actually
> change the pager for man? Ours by default is less, but you can use any
> pager you like, as that's configurable.
Yes. I think the first distro I saw man-db on was Debian. After I had
switched to another distro I was trying to duplicate the functionality.
I dug around trying to figure out how Debian's man pager was configured,
etc. It took me a while to finally figure out that Debian was using a
different man package. Actually, man-db is using less as it's pager by
default, but it does so in a way that displays that status line.
I know the whatis updates on Debian were very fast. It's package system
automatically fired off a trigger whenever a package installed or updated
man pages that performed a whatis update. The updates too a few seconds
at most to run.
Kevin
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