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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:24:33 +0000
From:      Daniel O'CONNOR <Daniel.O'Connor@schneider-electric.com>
To:        Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Daniel O'CONNOR <Daniel.O'Connor@schneider-electric.com>, "tcltk@FreeBSD.org" <tcltk@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: lang/tcl86 man pages
Message-ID:  <BC140F03-3477-4E65-BB1E-E7A6FD5DF5EB@schneider-electric.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180213123901.7mdqhsxgojiilxgh@ptrcrt.ch>
References:  <67B073C2-DBD6-4D4D-8024-1613C7388FCE@schneider-electric.com> <20180213123901.7mdqhsxgojiilxgh@ptrcrt.ch>

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> On 13 Feb 2018, at 23:09, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> and "man list.tcl86" works though.
> 
> Yes, this was the solution chosen to allow different versions of Tcl to cohexist. You can install tcl85 and tcl86 in parallel, and they won't have conflicting man page files because of the suffix.

OK, fair enough.

>> Is there a way to have an alias so the plain man pages work?
> 
> Not out of the box, I fear. What you could you is to redefine MAN_SUFFIX in lang/tcl86/Makefile. pkg-plist will need adjustment as it hardcodes the tcl86 part. So we could add MAN_SUFFIX to the PLIST_SUB list and use that in pkg-plist.
> 
> If you have a better suggestion, I'm all ears :)

Not really, I guess something like MacPort's "port select" command would be good but I don't have any patches for said feature :)
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