manpath

[Rainer Müller]

Shawn Protsman wrote:
> To my surprise I got no entry found when I did a 'man port'. What is  
> the recommended method to add port manpages to the path?
> 
> Create a '/etc/paths.d/macports'?
> 
> Or add to .profile:
> 
> export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH

The latter. Using paths.d would append the MANPATH at the end, but
usually you want to add new items in front of the system provided ones.

Rainer