From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 10:13:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5328416A4CE; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:13:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hermes.uci.kun.nl (hermes.uci.kun.nl [131.174.93.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5E643D31; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:13:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xdamen@sci.kun.nl) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (vhe-383505.sshn.net [195.169.208.89]) by hermes.uci.kun.nl (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30689) with ESMTP id <0IB400IXSKEAA0@hermes.uci.kun.nl>; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:13:24 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:14:52 +0100 From: Xander Damen In-reply-to: <20050130100316.GC8882@lupe-christoph.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-id: <41FCB39C.5010000@sci.kun.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050130100316.GC8882@lupe-christoph.de> cc: perl@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:13:51 -0000 Why would upgraded systems cause problems? I don't think the upgradesystem will delete any existing symlinks? Xander Lupe Christoph wrote: >On Saturday, 2005-01-29 at 21:24:25 +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > > >>Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), ... >> >> > >"don't do that", ever. > >Eben postponing this to the time 6.0 comes out does not change it. Any >upgraded system will fail in interesting and mysterious ways. > >I see no benefit in not having a /usr/bin/perl, and I see many problems >with it. Even when it does not affect my two insignificant ports, I'm >against it. > >If you are still planning on going through with this, please take the >idea to the perl5-porters list first. perl5-porters@perl.org > >My 2 Eurocents, >Lupe Christoph > >