Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:40:39 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: manpath change for ports ? Message-ID: <4a120d69-9934-3157-7e31-f9f2992982a7@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net> References: <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net>
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On 3/6/17 3:56 PM, Baptiste Daroussin 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? > > Best regards, > Bapt Yes please. Reducing the required changes to port software to FreeBSD is a good thing. -Alfred
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