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Date:      Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:52:58 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removing perl in make world
Message-ID:  <20020705095258.GC775@starjuice.net>
In-Reply-To: <1025862341.1573.40.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>
References:  <1025862341.1573.40.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>

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On (2002/07/05 10:45), Paul Richards wrote:

> I think we should add a target to make world that checks for the
> existence of an old base install of Perl and removes it if it exists.

I don't like this idea.

> As a general principle, if we do things like remove code during -current
> development then make world needs to cater for that change. The idea of
> make world is that what you get at the end of it is a pristine install
> of a snapshot of FreeBSD from the current branch.

No, the idea of `make world' is to upgrade my system in the way that I
tell it to.

Having the world target leave perl behind was critical for me when I
upgraded my box.

> I'd like to resurrect it's original meaning and add code to clean out
> old versions of Perl.

This would not fit in with the rest of the world target, which doesn't
clean out stale headers, stale libraries or stale binaries.
Special-casing certain things will surprise people.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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