FS#57375 - [man-db] less dependency can now be removed
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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
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
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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
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
Comment by Neven Sajko (Neven) -
Monday, 05 February 2018, 12:37 GMT
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) -
Tuesday, 06 February 2018, 05:51 GMT
That sounds like a horrible idea. Removing that would mean cat by
default?
Yeah; but that's okay if less is in optdepends, and also in base,
no?
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.