Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:40:05 -0800 From: Fred Condo <fred@tincture.us> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <e45c63a3492c0848868d1de129bb950f@tincture.us> In-Reply-To: <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Jan 29, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. >> >> In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in >> order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to >> #! /usr/local/bin/perl. >> >> CORRECT perl-dependant ports should not be affected. >> >> In order to keep pkg-install simple, no old symlink chasing and >> removal >> will be done, although the detailed instructions will be posted in >> ports/UPDATING and in pkg-message for the ports. > > BTW, this goes beyond what I was asking for, which was just "remove > the dangling symlinks when the package is deinstalled [because they > are now nonfunctional]" It goes beyond that, and it should not. As others have stated, this breaks too much for very little benefit. It would be better to implement exactly what Kris suggested.home | help
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