On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 00:56:10 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote
> Hi all, > > I would like to propose a change in the localbase hier for ports > > I think we should add /usr/local/share/man in the manpath along with at first > and maybe instead of in long term. > > The reason is: > - /usr/local/share/man seems more consistent to me with base which have: > /usr/share/man > - It will remove lots of patches from the ports tree where were we need to > patch upstream build system to install in a non usual path. > > My proposal is to add to the manpath /usr/local/share/man in default man(1) > command in FreeBSD 12 (MFCed to 11-STABLE) > > and either provide an errata for 11.0/10.3 or a > /usr/local/etc/man.d/something.conf via a port or something like that for > those two, what do you think? > > For the same reason I would like to allow porters to stop patching (with > pathfix or anything else) the path for pkgconfig files and allow > /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig along with the current > /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig > > Which will also remove tons of hacks from the ports tree. > > What do you think? +1 please do. I can't think of any (good) reason not to. Thanks! --Chris > > Best regards, > Bapt _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
