From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 29 22:15:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECFD37B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9U61pv28366; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:01:51 -0800 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:01:51 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Safely deleting miniperl. Message-ID: <20001029220151.A27766@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200010300541.AAA08789@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200010300541.AAA08789@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:10:13AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:10:13AM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On /src/UPDATING mentions that miniperl is no longer built as > of 10-06. Is it safe to delete all directories under /usr/src > that have the word "miniperl"? No. All that has changed is that they build system does not install miniperl and no longer uses an installed copy should it exist. It does use the copy it builds during the buildworld process internally. You shouldn't ever need or want to do that sort of source tree surgery unless you are doing development work. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message