Disable man-db auto-update in GHAs #51
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The dpkg man-db trigger is excessively slow on GHA runners, see e.g.: - actions/runner-images#10977 - actions/runner#4030 We disable it so it does not fire at the end of an `apt-get install`. This can easily shave a minute or two off the execution time. GUS-W-19995078
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The dpkg man-db trigger is excessively slow on GHA runners, see e.g.:
man-dbtrigger severely stalls package installation onubuntu-24.04runners actions/runner#4030We disable it so it does not fire at the end of an
apt-get install. This can easily shave a minute or two off the execution time.GUS-W-19995078