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From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Ashant Chalasani <sys@sellerbay.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Install port without man page
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Mel wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 18:07:42 Ashant Chalasani wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to install a port without the man-pages.  I'm trying to
> > install a dhcp server onto a Tinybsd image and end up buying myself a
> > bunch of files in /man, as seen at
> > http://code.google.com/p/tinybsdap/wiki/InstallingPorts (hope the
> > linking is not minded).
> 
> If the port controls installing the manpages, then you can set 
> NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES in /etc/make.conf.

NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES is traditionally just an imake-related hack,
which is hardly respected, but rather used. At the moment there
is no policy or knob to control manpage installation. However,
many ports respect MANPREFIX/MANxPREFIX.