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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.

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