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FS#57375 - [man-db] less dependency can now be removed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Neven Sajko (Neven) - Monday, 05 February 2018, 01:20 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 08 February 2018, 15:29 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The "less" package can now, with version 2.8.0, be removed from depends.

See: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/tree/NEWS#n38
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Thursday, 08 February 2018, 15:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 05 February 2018, 05:32 GMT
That sounds like a horrible idea. Removing that would mean cat by default?
Comment by Neven Sajko (Neven) - Monday, 05 February 2018, 12:37 GMT
Yeah; but that's okay if less is in optdepends, and also in base, no?
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 06 February 2018, 05:51 GMT
Less is in base. Why would anybody want to remove less from a system? You really don't want to call large manpages with cat.

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