Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:18:49 +0000 From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <3aaaa3a05012922186657ed46@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org>
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Changing this so it affects 5-STABLE is suicide it will annoy a lot of user's and draw people away from FreeBSD to other platforms, I dont see any benefit from doing this the symlinks have caused me no ill effect whatsoever Chris On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:51:37 -0700, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: > > > Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I > > plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming > > upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This > > will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing > > pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of > > FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script. > > > > In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in > > order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to > > #! /usr/local/bin/perl. > > > > CORRECT perl-dependant ports should not be affected. > > > > In order to keep pkg-install simple, no old symlink chasing and removal > > will be done, although the detailed instructions will be posted in > > ports/UPDATING and in pkg-message for the ports. > > > > Please respect Reply-To. > > Thank you, > > > > \Anton. > > I'm fine with this plan for 6-CURRENT. For 5-STABLE, it's a major > user-visible change, and that is something that we promised to avoid > with stable branches. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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