From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 23:53:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F062A16A4CE; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:53:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2out.barnet.com.au (mail2out.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE4A43D31; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:53:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail2out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 27) id 5D785707458; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:53:30 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <41FC21FA000102FB7E0E95@BarNet> Received: from mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (mail2.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0820D707458; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:53:30 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (edwin-3.int.barnet.com.au [10.10.12.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA10707456; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:53:29 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5BD9C60E0; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:53:28 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:53:28 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Anton Berezin , Oliver Lehmann , perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20050129235328.GA1209@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Anton Berezin , Oliver Lehmann , perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20050129211747.GD56998@heechee.tobez.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050129211747.GD56998@heechee.tobez.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:53:34 -0000 On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:17:47PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:09:05PM +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Anton Berezin wrote: > > > > > In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in > > > order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to > > > #! /usr/local/bin/perl. > > > > Wouldn't that break most of the 3rd party scripts out in the world? > > Yes, hence the HEADS UP with a possibility to back off if people really > sure it is a bad idea. With the removal of perl from the base-system, they put something in place to make sure that the installed version from the ports collection would be a drop-in replacement and that no functionality would be removed. It all worked like a charm. Be pragmatic, a little bit pollution (a handfull of symlinks only, not even real files) gives you the flexibility to run whatever Perl version you want. Please don't break it now. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/