manpath change for ports ?

[Diane Bruce]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 06:29:19AM +0000, Jan Beich wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at 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. 

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