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Bug#897137: live-build: man -k and apropos don't work in live system



> While this fixes this feature, it bloats the image for a feature that is
> seldom used.

Seldom used?  I think of apropos and man as the most fundamental
commands in the Unix ecosystem.  They are the first thing I mention,
when people ask me about learning (or mastering) the system.

Bloat?  The last live image I built occupies ~2215 MiB.  In it,
"tar czf - -C /var/cache/man . | wc -c" prints 421793, less than
one fiftieth of one percent of the image size.

In a smaller live image with fewer packages, the cost would be even
less than 0.4 MiB.


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