Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 08:24:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205090821380.98498-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu> In-Reply-To: <200205091340.g49De5jV022646@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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On Thu, 9 May 2002, Mark Murray wrote: # > Does having this redirector serve any useful purpose? It's an extra # > piece of code to maintain, it's an extra potential security risk, it's # > an extra source of potential confusion to the Perl user if there's a bug # > in it, and I can't see any useful purpose in it existing. # > # > Either /usr/bin/perl is there or it isn't, we don't need a fancy # > redirector to tell us it's not installed. # > # > A symlink is a much more sensible solution to this problem and a # > redirector just seems to be creating a toy for the fun of it rather than # > to solve any real problem. # # I'm completely ambivalent on this point. Symlink or redirector; I # don't mind. Once perl5 is out of the system cleanly, I'll consider # my job done. This may sound like an extremely silly little idea, but is there any reason why we can't just replace /usr/bin/perl with a shell script that prints out something like : Perl is no longer comes with the base install of FreeBSD, please install it from your ports collection, in /usr/ports/lang/perl5. -Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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