Re: apropos does nothing
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:13:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.
Hmm. Perhaps, yes ... provided that there's a no-update function for
those who just want an immediate answer.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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