translated manpages

[Tijl Coosemans]

I'm currently making a port for a program that has some of its manpages 
translated into other languages but not all of them. There doesn't seem 
to be a good way to handle this, since setting MANLANG assumes all 
manpages have been translated.

I've found a mail in the archives from earlier this month 
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-May/023177.html) 
that tries to address the exact same issue, but I don't really like the 
solutions provided there. In fact I don't even see how they can work, 
e.g. when you want to install multiple languages. Putting the manpages 
in the pkg-plist file would work, but then they aren't compressed.

I think it would be better if the list of manpages for a particular 
language defaults to the standard manpages, just as it currently works, 
but with the possibility to overwrite this list. Something like the 
following perhaps to install German and French translations with the 
latter being incomplete:

MANLANG= "" de fr
MAN1= page1.1 page2.1
MAN1_fr= page1.1

I'm not entirely familiar with Makefile syntax, but I suppose this would 
require only minimal changes to Mk/bsd.port.mk and would still be 
backwards compatible. There'd have to be something similar for MLINKS 
too of course.

Other opinions?
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