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Date:      Thu, 21 May 2020 17:30:01 +0200
From:      Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-head <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r535779 - in head/net/openntpd: . files
Message-ID:  <20200521153001.GA69712@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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Adam Weinberger:

> > Author: naddy
> > Date: Mon May 18 19:36:51 2020
> > New Revision: 535779
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/535779
> >
> > Log:
> >   Add a note in pkg-message that you need to override the manual search
> >   path to view the correct ntpd(8) man page.
> 
> Is there value to installing the manpage as openntpd.1, or creating
> that as a symlink?

Then you have a man page whose name is different from the command it
describes.  Of course, sbin/ntpd could be renamed to sbin/openntpd.
But how about ntpd.conf, ntpctl?  This just keeps spiralling.

I'll note that net/ntp and net/ntpsec conflict even more with base
ntp.  Should those be renamed as well?

> It'd work around that underlying problem, and
> frankly `man openntpd` is the first place I inevitably look for
> openntpd's manpage.

When you install security/openssh-portable, do you try "man openssh"?
net/isc-dhcp44-*?

How to deal with ports that install components that have name
conflicts with the base system is a general problem, and there
doesn't seem to be a good solution.

I don't like pkg-message either, but bjk@ suggested it.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2020-May/034062.html

If it upsets the status quo too much, I'll happily revert it.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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