From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 19:37:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C2916A41C; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:37:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F74043D4C; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:37:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.14] (imini.samsco.home [192.168.254.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j5EJfllk013393; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:41:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42AF314A.6080701@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:34:34 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org References: <200407201544.i6KFiWWr001296@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050613110937.GA29004@roughtrade.net> <20050613144244.GA45110@tara.freenix.org> <20050613233625.GF11349@roughtrade.net> <20050614104106.GA14918@tara.freenix.org> <20050614192854.GA13882@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050614192854.GA13882@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ntp Makefile config.h src/usr.sbin/ntp/arlib Makefile src/usr.sbin/ntp/doc Makefile ntp-genkeys.8 src/usr.sbin/ntp/libntp Makefile... X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:37:06 -0000 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:41:06PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > >>According to Joshua Goodall: >> >>>FreeBSD's use.perl script deliberately manages a symlink from >>>/usr/bin/perl to (for example) my /opt/bin/perl5.8.6. I believe >>>that using the managed link is more correct than making assumptions >>>about $LOCALBASE. >> >>You have a point. What do others say? > > > We should stop creating a /usr/bin/perl symlink. We don't create > /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/ruby. We should stop treating Perl a > something more special than other 3rd-party scripting languages. > What would we do if this file were a ruby script? > That is what we should do for it as a Perl script. > And interoperability with the trillions of perl scripts that start with #!/usr/bin/perl isn't a big deal? I vote for what gives our users the least headaches. Scott