> I have no opinion either way, other than I don't want to patch every PLIST 
> to change to use ${PKGMANDIR}/ instead of man/.

but that would be consistent, wouldn't it?

Offering two different mechanisms does not really serve transparency.

Besides, it should only hold for packages that actually use PKGMANDIR, which are not so many to date.

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