From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 14:16:08 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 A241016A4D0; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:16:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (heechee.tobez.org [217.157.39.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C373943D39; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:16:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 66DB512542F; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:16:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:16:06 +0100 From: Anton Berezin To: perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20050130141606.GA86132@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will NOT 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: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:16:08 -0000 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. Out of all the arguments against this change the most persuasive for me was the one of ISPs having to modify all their customers' scripts. So - this change is out. Instead: - use.perl is gone in 5.X and -CURRENT, but not in 4.X; - its functions are delegated to pkg-install, namely: - symlink creation, due to the seeming consensus of this thread; it will be done better than it is done now; in particular, more symlinks will be created (perldoc, percc etc), and dangling symlinks will be removed on deinstall; - spamming of /etc/make.conf, which we need for ports; this is also going to be less intrusive than it is now; - spamming of /etc/manpath.config Thank you all for the discussion. \Anton. -- The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi