Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:13:17 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help wanted: Install of p5-JSON-Parse removes Perl ??? Message-ID: <60171.1572588797@segfault.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <2b4dbaff-9eb3-4e9d-bf62-505683dc7ce1@gmail.com>
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In message <2b4dbaff-9eb3-4e9d-bf62-505683dc7ce1@gmail.com>, = MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yeabut is that a good excuse to render my already installed Perl >> non-functional, which is exactly what happened? > >Well what's it to do? If you have one package dependent on 5.28.2 and ano= ther = >one on 5.30.0 then it has no choice. Yes, it does. Stop and require manual intervention is a reasonable choice= . >Perhaps what would be preferred is that it stops any install and tells yo= u >that the package needs 5.30.0 and you have installed 5.28.2? That would >seem more logical. We agree. >> But that seems like a minor concern at this point. Far more troubling >> is the fact that pkg, in its infinite wisdom, somehow decided to instal= l >> two versions of Perl at the same time, breaking both in the process. > > From afar it didn't break both, it just failed to add a softlink. Is tha= t not > the case? I am able to answer that question definitely at this point in time, hoever now that I have Perl back and working again I see that the /usr/local/bin/= perl file on my system is quite distinctly and certainly *not* a synmlink, and also, the file inseld is showing up on ls -l as having a link count of 1. >> >> I hope that somebody will look at that. > >Well, nobody here will unless the maintainer for perl is active. If you w= ant >this looked at, I suggest contacting the port maintainer and/or raising a >bug report. ACK Regards, rfg
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