Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:53:23 +0100 From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> To: Holger Kipp <hk@alogis.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net> In-Reply-To: <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern>
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: > > I'm fine with this plan for 6-CURRENT. For 5-STABLE, it's a major > > user-visible change, and that is something that we promised to avoid > > with stable branches. > > It violates POLA on 5-STABLE, and it will violate POLA on 6-CURRENT, > especially as most perl programmers assume /usr/bin/perl to be the > correct path. If it's linux tradition to put perl in this path, perl programmers should assume another path on FreeBSD, so it isn't an argument for the proposed change. > We had enough good arguments against this change already, so imho > the correct thing to do is do just what Kris asked for: remove the > _dangling_ symlinks. -Kirill
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