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From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Subject: Re: manpath change for ports ?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:52:02 -0800
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 00:56:10 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote

> 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.
> 
> My proposal is to add to the manpath /usr/local/share/man in default man(1)
> command in FreeBSD 12 (MFCed to 11-STABLE)
> 
> and either provide an errata for 11.0/10.3 or a
> /usr/local/etc/man.d/something.conf via a port or something like that for
> those two, what do you think?
> 
> For the same reason I would like to allow porters to stop patching (with
> pathfix or anything else) the path for pkgconfig files and allow
> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig along with the current
> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig
> 
> Which will also remove tons of hacks from the ports tree.
> 
> What do you think?
+1 please do.
I can't think of any (good) reason not to.

Thanks!

--Chris
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt