Comment # 8 on bug 1213571 from Martin Jacobs

And here's result of todays boot:

top 5 lines from systemd-analyze blame

1min 32.931s mlocate.service
1min 13.890s mandb.service
     30.181s clamd.service
     24.693s backup-rpmdb.service
     13.217s
dev-disk-by\x2duuid-a988af6f\x2de4bd\x2d4e00\x2dab22\x2d5092449311ee.device

And result of journalctl -b 0 -o with-unit --unit mandb.service

Thu 2023-07-27 20:17:33 CEST Schnecke2G.Jacobs.home init.scope[1]: Starting Do
daily mandb update...
Thu 2023-07-27 20:18:48 CEST Schnecke2G.Jacobs.home init.scope[1]:
mandb.service: Deactivated successfully.
Thu 2023-07-27 20:18:48 CEST Schnecke2G.Jacobs.home init.scope[1]: Finished Do
daily mandb update.

So, your patch improves behavior of do_mandb definitely!