netbsd window manager confusion

netbsdnoob

Hello all, I found that if we install ctwm, the man page accessed through man ctwm or which ctwm
still refer to the by-default installation in /usr/X11R7/ instead of /usr/pkg/bin.

Is this normal behavior? I mean how can i set up the system to use ctwm from the /usr/pkg/bin directory?
Does this also happenwith other utilities?

Thanks in advance

netbsdnoob For ctwm from pkgsrc, they can be found in /usr/pkg/man/man1/ctwm.1

netbsdnoob

I solved it, by substituting in /etc/man.conf the priority precedence to first look into /usr/pkg instead of /usr/X11R7.
Basically I changed this line:

_default /usr/{share,X11R7,pkg,local}/man/
to:
_default /usr/{local,pkg,share,X11R7,X11R6}/man/

It fixed the problem, but still it got me wondering, is there a way to remove stuff installed with the base system on netbsd?
I mean how do I keep track of packages which are pre-installed if they do not come up in pkgin ?

netbsdnoob If you don't want X from base and want to use modular xorg from pkgsrc, simply skip the installation of the xsets.

netbsdnoob

Thanks for the suggestion Sir!

nia

I don't think using modular X is a good idea, you won't be able to use binary packages and might have other problems. Just fix the man path and you can use ctwm from pkgsrc without it.

netbsdnoob

Ok thanks a lot for the suggestion!