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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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