From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 21:08:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF4A16A4CE; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:08:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (heechee.tobez.org [217.157.39.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9B143D41; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:08:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 092CE125433; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:08:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:08:48 +0100 From: Anton Berezin To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20050129210848.GC56998@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , Kris Kennaway , perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050129205940.GB56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129210352.GA36709@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050129210352.GA36709@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: perl@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:08:50 -0000 [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