diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config b/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config
index 4cf214fff32..eea98bf7a2e 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath/manpath.config
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 # every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields
 #
 MANDATORY_MANPATH	/usr/share/man
-MANDATORY_MANPATH	/usr/share/perl/man
 #
 # check if the directory exists and if it does, add it to MANPATH
 #