Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:34:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050129213407.GB52364@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050129212810.GA54501@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050129205940.GB56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129210352.GA36709@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050129210848.GC56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129211634.GB38050@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050129212810.GA54501@voodoo.oberon.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:16:34PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > The thing is, that the whole idea of touching /usr/bin at all made sense > > > when perl was in the base system and we needed a way to "replace" it > > > with a version from ports. > > > > > > Since we don't have it in the base for quite some time, there is no good > > > reason to continue cluttering /usr/bin with those symlinks. So this > > > needs to be done eventually, and this seemed as good time as any to > > > introduce this change. > > > > Maybe we should continue to create (and also remove) the links for 5.x > > and try the change out in 6.x to see what kind of an impact is has. > > In this case we can miss what ports are actually broken, since not > everyone is running 6.x. I expect there'll be enough obviously-broken ports to deal with for a while, and we can then evaluate progress once they're taken care of. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB/AFPWry0BWjoQKURAh1cAKCZlMO/bAo7BSx5g/mUL0zr6SqQUQCdFKK7 PBvJJ3ZiefhlqwSlUKeFq6E= =vJWy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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