Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 17:31:49 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <691.1020958309@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 2002 08:24:57 MST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205090821380.98498-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu>
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On Thu, 09 May 2002 08:24:57 MST, Joseph Scott wrote: > This may sound like an extremely silly little idea, but is there > any reason why we can't just replace /usr/bin/perl with a shell script > that prints out something like : > > Perl is no longer comes with the base install of FreeBSD, please install > it from your ports collection, in /usr/ports/lang/perl5. We don't want the port to overwrite a script that exists in userland, and we don't want installworld blowing away (or, even worse, following) the port's symlink. Symlink or redirector, but please not this. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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