Re: makemandb vs. man.conf's _whatdb

[Dave Huang <khym%azeotrope.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 08:11:37PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> While it is a usage change maybe -o could be repurposed for output
> file (similar to services_mkdb, to pick another /var/db generator) and
> -O used for optimise?

Sure, that would work for me too... although for my situation, I'd
still need a symlink in /var/db, since apropos and whatis are
hardcoded to look there. I had suggested the man.conf keyword since
it's a centralized location for makemandb, apropos, and whatis
configuration.
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