From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 8:33:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D77337B400 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 08:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 175ptV-0000BA-00; Thu, 09 May 2002 17:31:49 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Joseph Scott Cc: Mark Murray , Paul Richards , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 2002 08:24:57 MST." Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 17:31:49 +0200 Message-ID: <691.1020958309@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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