On Fri, 5 May 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

# Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 20:54:31 +0100 (BST)
# From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
# To: Scott Aaron Bamford <sab@ansic.net>
# Cc: tech-pkg@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: location of man pages
# 
# 	Ah.. that was probably overlooked when the pkgsrc system was setup
# 	(or rather copied across from the FreeBSD ports system).
# 
# 		David/absolute

But X11 doesn't use share either for man pages.

I look at the base system as a small anomaly, and it doesn't bug me.

MANPATH=/usr/{share,X11,local}/man

Short, sweet and to the point.  It ain't broke.  Don't fix it.

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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.
# > 

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