From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Jan 29 21:34:08 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 E9C2616A4CE; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:34:08 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org
	(CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id AB66A43D46; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:34:08 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org)
Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000)
	id 0C9E0512C2; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:34:08 -0800 (PST)
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:34:07 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
Message-ID: <20050129213407.GB52364@xor.obsecurity.org>
References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org>
	<20050129205807.GA36637@xor.obsecurity.org>
	<20050129205940.GB56998@heechee.tobez.org>
	<20050129210352.GA36709@xor.obsecurity.org>
	<20050129210848.GC56998@heechee.tobez.org>
	<20050129211634.GB38050@xor.obsecurity.org>
	<20050129212810.GA54501@voodoo.oberon.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
	protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC"
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20050129212810.GA54501@voodoo.oberon.net>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i
cc: perl@FreeBSD.org
cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
cc: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.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 <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:34:09 -0000


--BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:28:10PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:16:34PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > The thing is, that the whole idea of touching /usr/bin at all made se=
nse
> > > when perl was in the base system and we needed a way to "replace" it
> > > with a version from ports.
> > >=20
> > > Since we don't have it in the base for quite some time, there is no g=
ood
> > > 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.
> >=20
> > Maybe we should continue to create (and also remove) the links for 5.x
> > and try the change out in 6.x to see what kind of an impact is has.
>=20
> In this case we can miss what ports are actually broken, since not
> everyone is running 6.x.

I expect there'll be enough obviously-broken ports to deal with for a
while, and we can then evaluate progress once they're taken care of.

Kris

--BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFB/AFPWry0BWjoQKURAh1cAKCZlMO/bAo7BSx5g/mUL0zr6SqQUQCdFKK7
PBvJJ3ZiefhlqwSlUKeFq6E=
=vJWy
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--BwCQnh7xodEAoBMC--