Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:47:08 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <m3ekg3av1f.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20050130105424.GA31598@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:54:24 -0800") References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> <20050130162753.D9021@a2.scoop.co.nz> <41FC67D8.2020609@mac.com> <20050130050110.GC1209@k7.mavetju> <41FCB779.7030902@mac.com> <20050130105424.GA31598@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > In other words, it's an impossible dream to hope that all scripts will > conform to this or any of the other possible choices (remember the > perl motto). Even making everything perl in the ports collection use > a uniform style is probably an infeasible task (recall 840 ports use > /usr/bin/perl, and that's not counting the others that use another > hardcoded variant of /usr/local/bin/perl). Well, broken ports are marked broken and removed after some months. How would broken Perl ports justify special treatment? -- Matthias Andree
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