Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:08:04 +0100 From: lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050130110804.GE8882@lupe-christoph.de> In-Reply-To: <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern> <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net>
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On Sunday, 2005-01-30 at 11:53:23 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: > > > I'm fine with this plan for 6-CURRENT. For 5-STABLE, it's a major > > > user-visible change, and that is something that we promised to avoid > > > with stable branches. > > It violates POLA on 5-STABLE, and it will violate POLA on 6-CURRENT, > > especially as most perl programmers assume /usr/bin/perl to be the > > correct path. > If it's linux tradition to put perl in this path, perl programmers > should assume another path on FreeBSD, so it isn't an argument for > the proposed change. It's a Perl tradition. Configure even asks you if you want to create this symlink, and AFAIR it defaults to yes. All systems I maintain, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD have /usr/bin/perl, and all examples I know use it. Removing it will cause unnecessary breakage, and lots of complaints, especially to the port maintainer and this mailing list. Luep Christoph -- | lupe@lupe-christoph.de | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | Ask not what your computer can do for you | | ask what you can do for your computer. |
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