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Subject: Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ?
From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:

>
> On 9/13/14, 11:39 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
> Should really be a standalone package.


It's not exactly the same, but the lang/python2 port for example is a
meta-port which creates
symlinks such as  /usr/local/bin/python2 -> python2.7.

So the precedent of having a metaport which creates symlinks is there.
What folks  have been complaining about in this thread is having symlinks
in the "base system directories" such as /bin.

My personal feeling is that we should look at this on a case-by-case basis
and allow these types
of ports, such as for /bin/bash but I'm sure others will disagree.
--
Craig