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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:20:55 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
Cc:        Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>, Julien Laffaye <kimelto@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>, Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de>
Subject:   Re: DHCP server in base 
Message-ID:  <20100914172055.4C8A21CC3C@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:13:58 %2B0200." <AANLkTinQtKKiFwUPx1YuSOAWgdVjbGbBUS4XDMU7XV=C@mail.gmail.com> 

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> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:13:58 +0200
> From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> 
> 2010/9/14 Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de>:
> > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:11:28 +0200, David DEMELIER
> > <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 2010/9/13 Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org>:
> >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:53 PM, David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Perl is a great example, I don't really understand why it's in the
> >>>> base, then the port need to rewrite the links into the base hierarchy
> >>>> and I think this is bad.
> >>>
> >>> Perl is not in the base system anymore. It's in the ports system.
> >>> Gordon
> >>
> >> Oh sorry I didn't saw that ! (I'm not following -current yet). Perfect !
> >
> > Uh. Perl was moved to ports somewhere in 2002 or 2003, IIRC.
> > Nothing to do with following -current ;-)
> >
> > ./Marian
> >
> 
> Oh then I'm confused, why the ports still rewrite links in /usr/bin then ?

This was a way to avoid breaking the huge number of perl scripts that
had: #!/usr/bin/perl as the first line. If perl simply moved to
/usr/local/bin, this would have broken a LOT of stuff people were doing,
so it was decided to put a link in /usr/bin. The port now has an option
to control this, but it is still there by default:
USE_PERL "Rewritelinks in /usr/bin" on
-- 
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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