Re: /var/cache/man/...
On Thu 10 Apr 2014 at 09:15:33 -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:14:39AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
>
> > > Nothing in /etc/cron/* says anything about recreating them. I assume
> > > mandb did it but can't tell what initiated the recreation of all
> > > these directories. Nor can I see any need, I don't imagine very many
> > > people speak all of those 23 languages. What is the purpose of having
> > > all of them installed?
> >
> > Um, didn't *you* install them?
> > Wouldn't that make it a rhetorical question?
> > :)
>
> I installed the whole system so in that manner you are correct but I
> did not ask for all those other languages.
/etc/cron.daily/man-db
> If you know of a way to tell mandb not to recreate these unnecessary
> directories I'd like to know about it.
/etc/cron.daily/man-db
But after reading
http://www.fifi.org/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs.html/fhs-5.2.2.html
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