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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