@sullybiker @nytpu I quickly[0]β ran arch in a container to check if man or man-db have any reverse dependencies. They don't! Can that be true? So if you install a whole Gnome desktop, you still can't assume that man will be there?
# pacman -Qi man-db
Name : man-db
Version : 2.9.4-1
Description : A utility for reading man pages
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://www.nongnu.org/man-db/
Licenses : GPL LGPL
Groups : None
Provides : man
Depends On : bash gdbm zlib groff libpipeline less libseccomp
Optional Deps : gzip [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : man
Replaces : man
Installed Size : 2.26 MiB
Packager : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Tue 09 Feb 2021 06:36:13 AM UTC
Install Date : Tue 23 Feb 2021 05:44:16 AM UTC
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature
[0]β Apart from running into a glibc bug (is there a kernel interface missing?) and picking an image from last year to run instead.
bugs.archlinux.org/task/69563