Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:06:58 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050130110658.GD1209@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern> <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net>
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > 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. Long before I ever saw FreeBSD or Linux, there were symlinks on the AIX, SunOS and Solaris machines from /usr/bin/perl pointing to the right executables. It's not a Linux-ism, it's like what somebody already pointed out, best practice for Perl. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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