Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:16:31 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Mr. Mark Murray" <mark@grondar.za>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020509191631.A58805@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020509125542.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:55:42PM -0400 References: <20020509180605.A57805@energyhq.homeip.net> <XFMail.20020509125542.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:55:42PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
Hi,
> 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:
Now that I think of it, you are absolutely right, John. Just let's make
a big big banner saying "Perl is no longer in base" so everybody notices
:)
Cheers,
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