From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 06:18:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E16916A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:18:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1F943D41 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:18:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so667554rne for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:18:50 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Mf/buKzrJ0IBH9yJktNtV0HmJ7ENI02XVAaDr7bceciUGiiaRckvFm45OLvGs9wmPK6QlQ0fA3LGCTaT/wzxynfz0ybyLuS7P+VWEwkQOiBMM2HLj6qaazFdnRubd+NLY7W/DnXbA3T0TbxR8d95XTVLscRAyPLqHAWx3BMaxx0= Received: by 10.38.125.70 with SMTP id x70mr139354rnc; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:18:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.39.1.22 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:18:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a05012922186657ed46@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:18:49 +0000 From: Chris To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> cc: perl@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Chris List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:18:51 -0000 Changing this so it affects 5-STABLE is suicide it will annoy a lot of user's and draw people away from FreeBSD to other platforms, I dont see any benefit from doing this the symlinks have caused me no ill effect whatsoever Chris On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:51:37 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: > > > Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I > > plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming > > upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This > > will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing > > pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of > > FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script. > > > > 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. > > > > CORRECT perl-dependant ports should not be affected. > > > > In order to keep pkg-install simple, no old symlink chasing and removal > > will be done, although the detailed instructions will be posted in > > ports/UPDATING and in pkg-message for the ports. > > > > Please respect Reply-To. > > Thank you, > > > > \Anton. > > 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. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >