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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:26:59 -0300
From:      Renato Botelho <garga.bsd@gmail.com>
To:        Diane Bruce <db@db.net>, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, bapt@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: manpath change for ports ?
Message-ID:  <7452d2d1-6481-c700-045b-4c2fd8ff84d4@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170307152400.GA14841@night.db.net>
References:  <20170306235610.cmpxk27jhoafel6l@ivaldir.net> <20170307062919.EFD452844@freefall.freebsd.org> <20170307152400.GA14841@night.db.net>

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On 07/03/17 12:24, Diane Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 06:29:19AM +0000, Jan Beich wrote:
>> 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.
> A big yes from me for both of these proposals. 
>

+1

-- 
Renato Botelho




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