How embarrasing!

[Markus Weissmann]

On 10 Jan 2008, at 10:13, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> What's the purpose of the symlink? I'm surprised we even have it.
>

When we agreed to have man pages in $prefix/share/man, we put this  
symlink in place to automagically fix all misbehaving ports and afair  
also because of some man search directory weirdness, where man  
expected the man pages in $PATH[n]/../man, if I recall correctly.
Anyway: We should definitely remove it! Most ports behave well already  
and the rest should be found by the mtree checks.


>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>
>>
>> Warning: violation by /opt/local/man
>> Warning: MacPorts violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
>> Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is  
>> intended), it will be an error in future releases!
>>
>>
>> 	Do you think it's safe to remove the ${prefix}/man symlink to $ 
>> {prefix}/share/man in MacPorts sources? Or do we have to bite the  
>> bullet and "destroot.violate_mtree yes"-justify ourselves to remove  
>> the warning?
>>
>>
>> -jmpp
>>
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>

Regards,

-Markus

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