This has been discussed off and on for over two years.
Now I was asked by pkgsrc-pmc to commit to pkgsrc support for a 
customizable location of man pages.

I added a custom PKGMANDIR?= man. For over two years, I have used 
PKGMANDIR=share/man in my mk.conf files on various systems.

I also "chmod 0 man" to make sure it was not used. And I fix problems as I 
have had time or need.

I have over 65 packages to update to help honor this. This includes some 
patches/ patches. So if you work on this, please ask me if I already did 
it but have not committed yet.

(Sorry I didn't commit all at once. Since I have had this in place for 
over two years, I also possibly have various other changes that I don't 
want to commmit simultaneously. So I am reviewing ...)

Many packages already use patches or workarounds to install man pages to 
man/ so changing to ${PKGMANDIR}/ works in same place.

Other changes include fixing INSTALLATION_DIRS and INSTALL_MAN references 
to use ${PKGMANDIR}/ instead of man/. I chose to do individually instead 
of fixing for all in bsd.pkg.mk to make sure this doesn't get to 
confusing. Should I make INSTALLATION_DIRS and/or INSTALL_MAN do this 
automatically?

The PLISTs can stay the same. bsd.pkg.mk converts man/ to ${PKGMANDIR}/.

Also if you have an old GNU_CONFIGURE script that doesn't know --mandir, 
then fix it or use CONFIGURE_HAS_MANDIR=NO. (This is like existing 
CONFIGURE_HAS_INFODIR.)

  Jeremy C. Reed

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