diff --git a/hosts/nixdesk/home.nix b/hosts/nixdesk/home.nix
index 9c345f2..e42b997 100644
--- a/hosts/nixdesk/home.nix
+++ b/hosts/nixdesk/home.nix
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     # development
     develop.common
     develop.exercism
-    develop.docs
+    # develop.docs
 
     develop.langs.haskell
     develop.langs.go
diff --git a/sys/profiles/core/docs.nix b/sys/profiles/core/docs.nix
index 39130f4..6ecda7f 100644
--- a/sys/profiles/core/docs.nix
+++ b/sys/profiles/core/docs.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 {pkgs, ...}: {
   documentation = {
     dev.enable = true;
-    man.generateCaches = false; # this does slow down builds by quite a lot
+
+    man.cache.enable = true;
+    man.cache.generateAtRuntime = true;
   };
   environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
     # linux-manual