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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:32:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        pst@Shockwave.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/local/libexec vs /usr/local/sbin
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960215163202.4815A-100000@nervosa.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602152221.OAA03676@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu>

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> The manpages are in /usr/local/man for historical reasons.  We've been
> shipping an /etc/manpath.config with "/usr/local/man" for ages and it
> will be too much of a pain to change it now.  Also, virtually no
> third-party software installs man pages in /usr/local/share/man, which 
> means we have to go patch the 400+ ports.
> 

Once again, we compromise consistency for "historical reasons."

Chris Layne,
coredump@nervosa.com.




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