From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 9:56: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A282237B40F for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 09:55:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11091 invoked from network); 9 May 2002 16:55:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 May 2002 16:55:51 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g49GtoF38576; Thu, 9 May 2002 12:55:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020509180605.A57805@energyhq.homeip.net> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 12:55:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Miguel Mendez Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Mr. Mark Murray" , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Paul Richards , "David O'Brien" 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 09-May-2002 Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 08:59:00AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > >> > A symlink is a much more sensible solution to this problem and a >> > redirector just seems to be creating a toy for the fun of it rather than >> > to solve any real problem. >> >> A symlink to where?? You may not assume /usr/local. > > IMHO the symlink should only be created by the perl port install, so > ${PREFIX} > is honoured. Ports should avoid messing with stuff outside of ${PREFIX} if they can help it. Existing systems will already have a /usr/bin/perl on them unless the user goes and removes it. People writing or executing scripts for new systems can easily figure out something is wrong when they get: /usr/bin/perl: not found or some such. Just remove perl and let it be installed from the port. As long as its documented in the release notes and UPDATING I don't think this is a major concern. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message