CFR: Replace man/manpath/whatis/apropos with a shell script

[Gordon Tetlow]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Anonymous <swell.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gordon Tetlow <gordon at tetlows.org> writes:
>
> > 2. Imports configuration from /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf and
> /etc/man.conf
> > (purposefully changed the manpath.config file since it is a different
> > syntax).
>
> Hmm, and if LOCALBASE != /usr/local? hier(7) does not specify /usr/local
> as the only place installed packages may reside in, only default one.
>

That variable is not easily found in shell. I'm open to suggestions on how
to figure it out. I suppose I could try something like make -V LOCALBASE
since it would be in /etc/make.conf if it is set. Another alternative would
be to parse the PATH and look for ../etc/man.d for each path component. That
would be even more generic (and allow for the user to customize it
potentially).

Thoughts?
Gordon