Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:24:25 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> To: perl@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org>
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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. Please respect Reply-To. Thank you, \Anton. -- The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi
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