From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 20:59:42 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 6907516A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:59:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (heechee.tobez.org [217.157.39.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 994B943D1D for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:59:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8D4AD125434; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:59:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:59:40 +0100 From: Anton Berezin To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20050129205940.GB56998@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: perl@FreeBSD.org 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 20:59:42 -0000 On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:58:07PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:24:25PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > > Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I > > plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming > > upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This > > will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing > > pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of > > FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script. > > > > 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. > > > > CORRECT perl-dependant ports should not be affected. > > > > In order to keep pkg-install simple, no old symlink chasing and removal > > will be done, although the detailed instructions will be posted in > > ports/UPDATING and in pkg-message for the ports. > > BTW, this goes beyond what I was asking for, which was just "remove > the dangling symlinks when the package is deinstalled [because they > are now nonfunctional]" True. Do you oppose to this change, and if yes, why? \Anton. -- The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi