From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 22:47:08 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 9FF0B16A4CF; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:47:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tensor.xs4all.nl (tensor.xs4all.nl [194.109.160.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0D343D39; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:47:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from kilgore.dim (kilgore.dim [192.168.0.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7144222852; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:47:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:46:51 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1451245397.20050129234651@andric.com> To: Anton Berezin In-Reply-To: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="----------829224D10485E72" cc: perl@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-stable@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 22:47:08 -0000 ------------829224D10485E72 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2005-01-29 at 21:24:25 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. What purpose does this serve? To keep the base system clean? I'm not convinced that having just a few (2?) symlinks in /usr/bin will "pollute" the base system, but it does save having to modify potentially thousands of scripts. Isn't the latter *much* more expensive? ------------829224D10485E72 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFB/BJbsF6jCi4glqMRAkOfAKCkKO5PpiNz+XgNRHBF7oJK5TRvmQCdH7V9 0TMFw5N1cQBebzcUwfbWxcA= =dlDR -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------829224D10485E72--