manpath change for ports ?

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 3/6/17 3:56 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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.
>
> My proposal is to add to the manpath /usr/local/share/man in default man(1)
> command in FreeBSD 12 (MFCed to 11-STABLE)
>
> and either provide an errata for 11.0/10.3 or a
> /usr/local/etc/man.d/something.conf via a port or something like that for those
> two, what do you think?
>
> For the same reason I would like to allow porters to stop patching (with pathfix
> or anything else) the path for pkgconfig files and allow
> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig along with the current
> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig
>
> Which will also remove tons of hacks from the ports tree.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best regards,
> Bapt
Yes please.  Reducing the required changes to port software to FreeBSD 
is a good thing.

-Alfred