On 2018/06/22 09:39, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 06:09:31PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Norm Finlay wrote on Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 04:55:04PM -0500:
> > 
> > > Installing the graphing package "grace" created the following warnings.
> > > This occurred in the v6.3 release.  The folks on irc suggested I email 
> > > this
> > > to [email protected].
> > 
> > Right.  The post-install target is plainly wrong.  Never install
> > manual pages outside the intended manpath.  Mandoc doesn't allow
> > that.
> 
> Hmmm. Isnt it what tcl/tk and a bunch of other ports are doing, for
> perfectly valid reasons ? what if you have a package installing
> manpages with 'generic' names ?
> 

That's a different case, there the manuals are just installed to a
different directory and you use -m/MANPATH/man.conf to locate them,
here they're installed to a different directory and symlinked.

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