Subject: Re: bug#51416: [PATCH] profiles: Build the man database only if 'man-db' is in the profile.

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:45:00 -0400

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:50:54PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Yes.  What wouldn’t work, unless ‘man-db’ is in the same profile, is
> ‘man -k whatever’:
> 
>   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Documentation.html
> 
> On Guix System, the system profile does include man-db by default.

Wow, I never knew about that feature. I figured the database was
necessary for `man foo`.

+1 for this change!