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la-ninpre <aaoth@aaoth.xyz>
Subject:
ports man pages location
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ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 13 Oct 2024 06:47:33 +0000

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Hello, ports!

Recently author of a software I'm maintaining a port for has contacted me to report that some user that preferred to be anonymous suggested to change install location of man pages from ${PREFIX}/man/man1/ to ${PREFIX}/share/man/man1/. I've checked what other ports do and found that pretty much all of them use ${PREFIX}/man/... too. Only exception that I found by grepping was math/wxMaxima.

Do I understand correctly that ${PREFIX}/man/ is the preferred ports man page location on OpenBSD? If that's true then why it is so? Is it because man path in default mandoc.conf is set to /usr/local/man?

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Best regards,
la ninpre.