Ah.. that was probably overlooked when the pkgsrc system was setup
	(or rather copied across from the FreeBSD ports system).

		David/absolute
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Scott Aaron Bamford wrote:

> sorry, what i should have said:
> how come pkgsrc uses
> ${LOCALBASE}/man
> and not
> ${LOCALBASE}/share/man
> like basesrc does.
> 
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> >	To keep to the ${LOCALBASE} hierarchy - same as bin, lib, sbin,
> >	libexec etc.
> >
> >
> >		David/absolute
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> >
> >On Thu, 4 May 2000, Scott Aaron Bamford wrote:
> >
> >> Can someone tell me the reason pkgsrc installs its packages in
> >> ${LOCALBASE}/man while basesrc uses /usr/src/share/man? how come
> >> pkgsrc doesnt use share/man ?
> >>