On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Including pkgsrc-wip, I see around 516 packages that have patches that
> include some reference to defining a man directory.
>
> I see around 989 packages that reference defining a man directory
> (directly or via some files or some patch). (Around 380 use GNU_CONFIGURE
> so some may not be needed.)
>
> 301 packages use INSTALL_MAN directly.
>
> We have numerous GNU_CONFIGURE packages that will just work. (Only some
> are too old to support --mandir.) This is around 2480 packages that will
> work instantly.

I forgot to post my other research. About 2200 packages install man pages
(not counting dynamic generated PLISTs).

Of these, this is about 1256 packages that already use GNU_CONFIGURE. So
maybe around 1000 packages may have problems ...

 Jeremy C. Reed

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