manpath change for ports ?

Renato Botelho garga.bsd at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 18:27:05 UTC 2017


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 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. 
>

+1

-- 
Renato Botelho



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