Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:08:48 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050129210848.GC56998@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20050129210352.GA36709@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050129205940.GB56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129210352.GA36709@xor.obsecurity.org>
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[ok, returning it to ports@ too, there might be some interest] On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:03:52PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:59:40PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > > > > BTW, this goes beyond what I was asking for, which was just "remove > > > the dangling symlinks when the package is deinstalled [because they > > > are now nonfunctional]" > > > > True. Do you oppose to this change, and if yes, why? > > It seems pretty disruptive, especially to users of the -stable branch, > and I'm not sure there's a good reason for doing it. The thing is, that the whole idea of touching /usr/bin at all made sense when perl was in the base system and we needed a way to "replace" it with a version from ports. Since we don't have it in the base for quite some time, there is no good reason to continue cluttering /usr/bin with those symlinks. So this needs to be done eventually, and this seemed as good time as any to introduce this change. \Anton. -- The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi
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