Re: [dev] man and man-db

2013-11-05 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 10:58:58AM +, Raphaël Proust wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Szymon Olewniczak > wrote: > > Which db engines > > do you consider of being suckless? > > I (as in “myself”, not as in “the suckless community”) think file > based storage is a DB that sucks less t

Re: [dev] man and man-db

2013-11-05 Thread Raphaël Proust
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Szymon Olewniczak wrote: > Which db engines > do you consider of being suckless? I (as in “myself”, not as in “the suckless community”) think file based storage is a DB that sucks less than most systems out there. However, I would argue that the file abstraction

[dev] man and man-db

2013-11-04 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I've realized recently that starting from the times of Fedora 13 man application was replaced by man-db in all major GNU/Linux distros. Do you thing that using Berkeley DB is better that traditional flat-text whatis db (in my opinion it is, it probably speed up things)? Does the apropos comman