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Date:      Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:53:15 +0400
From:      Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc:        Ashant Chalasani <sys@sellerbay.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install port without man page
Message-ID:  <20080424055311.GF1449@amilo.cenkes.org>
In-Reply-To: <200804151934.36301.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
References:  <6a5b467e0804150907u20d1163fo27c067c025d8b08c@mail.gmail.com> <200804151934.36301.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Mel wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 18:07:42 Ashant Chalasani wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to install a port without the man-pages.  I'm trying to
> > install a dhcp server onto a Tinybsd image and end up buying myself a
> > bunch of files in /man, as seen at
> > http://code.google.com/p/tinybsdap/wiki/InstallingPorts (hope the
> > linking is not minded).
> 
> If the port controls installing the manpages, then you can set 
> NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES in /etc/make.conf.

NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES is traditionally just an imake-related hack,
which is hardly respected, but rather used. At the moment there
is no policy or knob to control manpage installation. However,
many ports respect MANPREFIX/MANxPREFIX.



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