From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 8 8:52: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97F5137B407 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 08:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 43613 invoked by uid 3130); 8 May 2002 15:52:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:52:02 -0400 From: Garrett Rooney To: GB Clark Cc: Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020508155202.GE85290@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20020508075112.66AB638FD@overcee.wemm.org> <20020508035501.72d32dfc.gclarkii@vsservices.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020508035501.72d32dfc.gclarkii@vsservices.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:55:01AM -0500, GB Clark wrote: > > On Wed, 08 May 2002 00:51:12 -0700 > Peter Wemm wrote: > > >Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > pkg_update is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in sh > > > > pkg_update should probably be cvs rm'ed and replaced by the portupgrade > > package from the ports collection. > > > So you want to take out perl and replace it with ruby? The portupgrade > package is a ruby script, not C. i think he meant that we should remove it, and if people want the functionality they should be directed to install the portupgrade package from ports. it works much better than pkg_update anyway, i even recall seeing a post from the original author of pkg_update saying just that a while back. -garrett -- garrett rooney Remember, any design flaw you're rooneg@electricjellyfish.net sufficiently snide about becomes http://electricjellyfish.net/ a feature. -- Dan Sugalski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message