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Re: apropos does nothing



Colin Watson wrote:
> Yes, there is, and in cron.daily. The manual database doesn't get
> updated as insanely often as it used to, because that annoyed the hell
> out of people who were just trying to view individual pages. This may
> mean you need to run mandb yourself if you want things to show up in the
> database in a hurry.

Maybe it would make sense to have use of apropos cause a database update
(if the suid stuff is enabled). It was annoying to have it update the db
when a single page was being viewed, but updating the db before
searching is something else really.

-- 
see shy jo



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