http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527434 Summary: Proposal: drop catman caching Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: andi-nbz@firstfloor.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009071200 SUSE/3.0.12-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.12 Enhancement request, simplification: the man rpm creates an awful lot of inodes just for the caching hierarchy. It also has cron jobs and all kind of other gunk to manage this. % rpm -ql man | grep cache | wc -l 899 But I don't really see any advantage for caching manpages anymore, groff is fast enough, there's basically no difference between a regenerated manpage and a cached one in terms of user experience. Maybe it made sense on a 386, but I don't think it does anymore. So I would propose to drop the whole manpage caching machinery and just always reformat based on the groff sources. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.