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>  * Well in that case, the identd port needs to be update, ill email the 
>  * maintainer, still wondering about the man pages though.
> 
> The manpages are in /usr/local/man for historical reasons.  We've been
> shipping an /etc/manpath.config with "/usr/local/man" for ages and it
> will be too much of a pain to change it now.  Also, virtually no
> third-party software installs man pages in /usr/local/share/man, which 
> means we have to go patch the 400+ ports.

/usr/local has historically been for software that's local to one
machine.

If a directory is going to be shared among several machines and thus
has a need for a "share" subdirectory, it should probably be named
something other than "/usr/local".