Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:38:48 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The great perl script rewrite - progress report Message-ID: <20021202153848.GB30926@starjuice.net> In-Reply-To: <20021202033634.GB51597@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200207311328.g6VDSlRZ066565@grimreaper.grondar.org> <p05200f21ba0f31dc87c9@[128.113.24.47]> <20021202033634.GB51597@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On (2002/12/01 19:36), Kris Kennaway wrote: > > /usr/bin/mmroff > > /usr/bin/afmtodit > > > > /usr/sbin/adduser > > /usr/sbin/rmuser > > These must be converted before 5.0-R. Unless we make installation of the perl package happen automatically as part of sysinstall. I spent an hour looking at sysinstall and got a head-ache. I'm not saying that this is a preferable solution, just a solution that we know will definitely work, while new C versions of these utilities don't have much time to get tested. Remember that we didn't remove Perl from the base system because we didn't think FreeBSD should ship with it; we had other reasons that related mostly to maintenance. These issues are not tickled by a package install. Of course, someone would actually have to work past the head-ache and produce a working patch for sysinstall. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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