Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 10:24:00 -0500 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> Cc: bapt@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: manpath change for ports ? Message-ID: <20170307152400.GA14841@night.db.net> In-Reply-To: <20170307062919.EFD452844@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net> <20170307062919.EFD452844@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 06:29:19AM +0000, Jan Beich wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to propose a change in the localbase hier for ports > > > > I think we should add /usr/local/share/man in the manpath along with at first > > and maybe instead of in long term. > > > > The reason is: > > - /usr/local/share/man seems more consistent to me with base which have: > > /usr/share/man > > - It will remove lots of patches from the ports tree where were we need to patch > > upstream build system to install in a non usual path. > > Can you also move /usr/local/info to /usr/local/share/info? texinfo is > gone since 11.0-RELEASE (or r276551) but hier(7) and BSD.usr.dist still > try to encroach on GNU defaults. A big yes from me for both of these proposals. -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
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