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Subject: Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?
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On 2014-07-08 18:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 12:15:22 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 08/07/2014 17:47, Jack Duthen wrote:
>>> Question #3
>>> To get a 'man' that works when piped, is there a better way than
>>> loading this "random" collection of utilities?
>>>
>>> Am I the only one to get that problem???
>
>> util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was not yet noticed.
>
>> man was recently changed, so this dependency was likely missed,
>> specially as it seems hidden inside the man binary.
>
> Yes,  this is true. I'll add it. I'm collecting a few things together,

Careful: right now util-linux requires: perl, so people will complain if 
it gets pulled as is.  I'll attempt to address this soon.

> and trying to get the DB creation to work a little faster as well.

That would be good, but there are some additional issues which make me 
think we should drop this from postinstall.


Yaakov


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