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Date:      Tue,  7 Mar 2017 06:29:19 +0000 (UTC)
From:      jbeich@freebsd.org (Jan Beich)
To:        bapt@freebsd.org
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: manpath change for ports ?
Message-ID:  <20170307062919.EFD452844@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net>

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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> 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.

Can you also move /usr/local/info to /usr/local/share/info? texinfo is
gone since 11.0-RELEASE (or r276551) but hier(7) and BSD.usr.dist still
try to encroach on GNU defaults.



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