From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 9:58: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ops-03.itg.discovery.com (ops-03.itg.discovery.com [198.147.14.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCCD37B40E for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 09:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ops-03.itg.discovery.com; id MAA28116; Thu, 9 May 2002 12:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 12:57:50 -0400 From: Patrick Gardella To: "Joseph Scott" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-Id: <20020509125750.03eb3ce4.patrick@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: References: <200205091340.g49De5jV022646@grimreaper.grondar.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Because unless the user specifically doesn't want to install Perl, it *will* come with the base install. It just won't be built with world. The thought is to install it as a port (pkg_add) at install time. They would have to go out of their way to *not* install it. The sysadmin can do something like this if they don't want Perl installed at all. Patrick On Thu, 9 May 2002 08:24:57 -0700 (PDT) "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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message