> Indeed, that's a complete system for installing md manual pages > into mi directories. I doubt that attempting to clean that up > during -beta would be a particularly good idea.
-beta doesn't mean slow down. When we crank from X.X to X.X+.1, sometimes the ports team encounters artifacts which take some time to find and resolve. So we crank the number and move to -beta quite early. To bring familiarity of the new number to unknown software. As for the problem, yeah it is a problem. How to solve it? Not quite sure.