Bug 437990
Summary: | switch to man-db project | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stepan Kasal <kasal> |
Component: | man | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | rawhide | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/ | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2008-05-12 08:59:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Stepan Kasal
2008-03-18 15:52:01 UTC
I should have writen some reasons: man-db uses Berkeley db instead of text file for the index of man pages, so searching for man pages with whatis (man -k) anmd apropos (man -f) shall be quicker. This sounds nice, but it is not a strong reason, as I have never heard about any performance problems with these commands. man-db uses autotools, and consequently has better support for GNU coding standards, and is more portable to non-Linux systems. The former might help us with packaging in the long run, but it not so important when we have man-1.6x well domesticated in our spec file. The latter (portability) is not directly relevant here. man-db seems to be kind of popular: Debian (incl. Ubuntru) and SuSE has selected it as their only man implementation. OTOH, Mandrike has the old one, as we have, and Gentoo provides ebuilds for both. To sum up, there seems to be no strong reason for man-db, co my cry "switch to" was not justified. OTOH, I think we should remember man-db as a possible alternative. If man-db becomes dominant in the future, we might decide to "go with the crowd," but it is not so at the moment. Thanks for your justification, for now I leave Federico Lucifredi's man in fedora, if there is any new fact/reason to change the upstream, please reopen this bug and add a comment here. |