Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:05:26 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050130130526.GA92427@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern> <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net>
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:47:32AM +0100, 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. > > If it's linux tradition to put perl in this path, perl programmers > should assume another path on FreeBSD, so it isn't an argument for > the proposed change. It is not a *Linux* tradition. It is a *Perl* tradition which predates both Linux and FreeBSD. Most Perl documentation, going back over a decade, has used #!/usr/bin/perl in example scripts and strongly suggested that system administrators should put Perl there. I would say that there are probably more Perl scripts out there that refer to "#!/usr/bin/perl" than all other variants put together. > > > We had enough good arguments against this change already, so imho > > the correct thing to do is do just what Kris asked for: remove the > > _dangling_ symlinks. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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