From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 00:40:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D49B16A4CE; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:40:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from absinthe.tincture.us (adsl-67-113-224-217.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.113.224.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D48A43D41; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:40:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fred@tincture.us) Received: from [10.0.0.12] (great-northern.tincture.us [10.0.0.12] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by absinthe.tincture.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0U0e7vb011116 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:40:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fred@tincture.us) In-Reply-To: <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Fred Condo Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:40:05 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: perl@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: perl@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:40:11 -0000 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.