Bug 678763

Summary: Build with zlib support, use elinks as default HTML browser
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta>
Component: man-dbAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
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Description Ville Skyttä 2011-02-19 12:41:49 UTC 
Created attachment 479674 [details]
Build with zlib support, use elinks as default HTML browser

Adding zlib-devel to BuildRequires would enable this benefit (from NEWS):

   o A decompression library is now in place. This allows man-db to use
     zlib to decompress gzipped files, and allows most of its uses of
     temporary files to be removed. The only remaining exceptions are
     cat file creation (which uses a temporary file in the cat tree
     rather than in /tmp) and viewing HTML manual pages (which uses a
     temporary directory). Otherwise, man-db should now work fine even
     with a read-only /tmp during system recovery.

...and setting some browser as the default for HTML would make it more likely for --html to work out of the box and at least output more understandable error messages, and would fix --help output.  xdg-open would be ideal but it doesn't work here as some of the utils it invokes may exit too early (gvfs-open, gnome-open) thus resulting in man cleaning up the temporary HTML files before the viewer opens.  elinks is required by more apps than lynx so I chose it.  Not worth adding a dependency to it in my opinion.
Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2011-03-23 14:09:13 UTC 
Thanks added to man-db-2.5.9-6.fc16.