From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 18:09:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF9E1065670 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:09:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jsb.__@speakeasy.net) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D158FC14 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 18:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.50]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6386A710B6 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 14:09:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 23499 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2012 18:09:20 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 7971, pid: 2196, t: 0.0174s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:10739 Received: from unknown (HELO wmail4.sea5.speakeasy.net) ([69.17.117.160]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Jun 2012 18:09:20 -0000 Received: from wmail.speakeasy.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wmail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8196BF93 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: AtMail Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:09:19 PDT Message-Id: <55037.1339092559@speakeasy.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: paths of ruby, python, perl... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:09:21 -0000 Each time I've upgraded ruby, python, and perl I've encountered lengthy = reinstalls of the port files (p5-...) as well as higher-level programs which depend upon them. (Many pkg_which oneliners to parse.= ..) This could be simplified if those /lang/ ports were all-in-= one-dir (like /perl/ rather than perl site_perl/5,10 site= _perl/5.12 /5.10 /5.12 etc... Maybe someone knows i= f such a path reconfiguration would break some upstream non-BSD standard...= Thanks. J. Bouquet =