Install port without man page

Eduardo Morras nec556 at retena.com
Tue Apr 15 16:56:14 UTC 2008


At 18:07 15/04/2008, Ashant Chalasani wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>Is there a way to install a port without the man-pages.  I'm trying to
>install a dhcp server onto a Tinybsd image and end up buying myself a
>bunch of files in /man, as seen at
>http://code.google.com/p/tinybsdap/wiki/InstallingPorts (hope the
>linking is not minded).

Just a hack but you can create (as root) a ln from man directory to 
/dev/null and install.

If you want preserve the man pages move them to other directory. When 
all is installed move again to original man or update the ln to the 
dir where you move them.

>Thanks

HTH



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