Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:46:51 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <1451245397.20050129234651@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org>
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------------829224D10485E72 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2005-01-29 at 21:24:25 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. What purpose does this serve? To keep the base system clean? I'm not convinced that having just a few (2?) symlinks in /usr/bin will "pollute" the base system, but it does save having to modify potentially thousands of scripts. Isn't the latter *much* more expensive? ------------829224D10485E72 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFB/BJbsF6jCi4glqMRAkOfAKCkKO5PpiNz+XgNRHBF7oJK5TRvmQCdH7V9 0TMFw5N1cQBebzcUwfbWxcA= =dlDR -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------829224D10485E72--
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