Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:30:03 +0200 From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>, Julien Laffaye <kimelto@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>, Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: DHCP server in base Message-ID: <AANLkTimrhcyzkv_p2eUqKWtc71J1gX=qTuit3cO7pBdX@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100914172055.4C8A21CC3C@ptavv.es.net> References: <AANLkTinQtKKiFwUPx1YuSOAWgdVjbGbBUS4XDMU7XV=C@mail.gmail.com> <20100914172055.4C8A21CC3C@ptavv.es.net>
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2010/9/14 Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>: >> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:13:58 +0200 >> From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org >> >> 2010/9/14 Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de>: >> > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:11:28 +0200, David DEMELIER >> > <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 2010/9/13 Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org>: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:53 PM, David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gma= il.com> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> Perl is a great example, I don't really understand why it's in the >> >>>> base, then the port need to rewrite the links into the base hierarc= hy >> >>>> and I think this is bad. >> >>> >> >>> Perl is not in the base system anymore. It's in the ports system. >> >>> Gordon >> >> >> >> Oh sorry I didn't saw that ! (I'm not following -current yet). Perfec= t ! >> > >> > Uh. Perl was moved to ports somewhere in 2002 or 2003, IIRC. >> > Nothing to do with following -current ;-) >> > >> > ./Marian >> > >> >> Oh then I'm confused, why the ports still rewrite links in /usr/bin then= ? > > This was a way to avoid breaking the huge number of perl scripts that > had: #!/usr/bin/perl as the first line. If perl simply moved to > /usr/local/bin, this would have broken a LOT of stuff people were doing, > so it was decided to put a link in /usr/bin. The port now has an option > to control this, but it is still there by default: > USE_PERL "Rewritelinks in /usr/bin" on > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 =C2=A0EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 > Well I see, thanks ! --=20 Demelier David
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