Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 18:04:04 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: manpath change for ports ? Message-ID: <20170307180404.284165de@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <abb84571-b3d6-190d-3b91-30aae7e16ed8@FreeBSD.org> References: <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net> <abb84571-b3d6-190d-3b91-30aae7e16ed8@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:51:14 -0600 Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 03/06/2017 17:56, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> I would like to propose a change in the localbase hier for ports > > [...] > >> Which will also remove tons of hacks from the ports tree. >> >> What do you think? > > This sounds good to me. > > I seem to recall that most(?) Linux distros used /usr/man many years > ago, but they switched to /usr/share/man, I think in the early 2000s. > If that's correct, then I consider our /usr/local/man path a historical > curiosity that should finally be changed to /usr/local/share/man. Yes, we used PREFIX/man because that's what software developed for Linux used at the time.
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