Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:53:28 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>, perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050129235328.GA1209@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20050129211747.GD56998@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20050129211747.GD56998@heechee.tobez.org>
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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/
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