From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 5 2:52: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1EF37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 02:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2900043E09 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 02:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@starjuice.net) Received: from sheldonh by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17QPlq-0000wH-00; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 11:52:58 +0200 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:52:58 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Paul Richards Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing perl in make world Message-ID: <20020705095258.GC775@starjuice.net> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Richards , current@freebsd.org References: <1025862341.1573.40.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1025862341.1573.40.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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