On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:35:13AM +0200, Jan Chaloupka wrote:
Forwarding Colin's response
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Jan Chaloupka jchaloup@redhat.com said:
there has been a discussion about if we need cache for man-db for users which use man pages or update system only from time to time and thus don't need to update cache every day. man-db as it is now depends on systemd which brings another set of packages. The use case is "I just want to read man page. So I install man which on the other hand download another set of packages. I want to read man page and it downloads systemd.".
Have you considered installing the timer file, but without the dependency? If systemd is there, it could use it, otherwise not. That would make a whole lot more sense to me than creating another package, and would be my recommendation.
Nope, this is not going to work. If there's no dependency on systemd then during installation rpm can install man-db before systemd and and the timer will not get enabled. Currently it is not possible to install systemd units without a dependency on systemd.
Zbyszek