Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:53:58 -0800 From: Chris Doherty <chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net> To: perl@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <20050130165358.GL5255@zot.electricrain.com> In-Reply-To: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org>
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:24:25PM +0100, Anton Berezin said: > In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in > order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to > #! /usr/local/bin/perl. options under discussion: 1) break *millions* of pieces of Perl software, plenty of it run by people unable or uninterested in modifying every last little corner of it (even with an automated find/replace, which is guaranteed to break *something*, and if I were them I would just switch to Debian at that point), so the FreeBSD's /usr/bin can have one less symlink by default. 2) respect the way the world actually is, and just leave the symlink in place. #1 does more than violate POLA; it's more akin to renaming /bin/cp to /bin/copy, in the name of progress, and saying everyone should just update their code. it's not clear to me how #1 is a serious choice. chris
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