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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.