From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 11:37:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA8516A4CE; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:37:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dave.horsfall.org (mrdavi2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.75.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05A343D2F; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:37:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.horsfall.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id j0UBbM800812; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:37:22 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:37:22 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall In-Reply-To: <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern> Message-ID: References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD STABLE list cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:37:27 -0000 On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, 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. I have *never* assumed that Perl was in /usr/bin, so for me the POLA simply doesn't apply. In fact, the POLA would seem to say that you don't put a 3rd-party product into a system area. -- Dave, who was taught by JohnL