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Re: PostInstallLast addons?
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:19:36 -0400, "Christopher Faylor"
<cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> said:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:28:14PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> >Robert R Schneck schrieb:
> >>lex ein wrote:
> >>>6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using
> >>>'locate openssh' produces no results unless the user first runs
> >>>'updatedb'.
> >>
> >>Would it be appropriate for the PostInstallLast part of setup which
> >>"updates info dir" to also run makewhatis? And perhaps even updatedb?
> >
> >Very unlikely.
> >These are quite massive processes in contrary to _update-info-dir
> >
[...]
> Boy, I started a makewhatis at the start of this message. It's been
> a few minutes, and it's still going.
>
> <pause>
>
> It took *seven* minutes to complete (cygwin sucks. why is it so slow?
> discuss amongst yourselves) I guess we really can't add this to the
> setup process.
>
> cgf
How about a few extra checkbox items on the "Cygwin Setup - Create
Icons" screen
in setup.exe?
"Cygwin Setup - Finish
Create icons
Have setup create icons for easy access to the Cygwin environment.
[ ] Create icon on _Desktop
[ ] Add icon to _Start Menu
Optional tasks - (may take many minutes!)
[ ] Build database (makewhatis) of man page short descriptions for
'whatis' & 'apropos'.
[ ] Build database (updatedb) of file names for 'locate'.
Display README information at exit.
[ ] Display /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ directory of README files.
"
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