From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 16:24:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cs6668125-184.austin.rr.com (cs6668125-184.austin.rr.com [66.68.125.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9261337B405 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 16:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fracture@localhost) by cs6668125-184.austin.rr.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g49NTR771651; Thu, 9 May 2002 18:29:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from fracture) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 18:29:27 -0500 From: Jordan DeLong To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Joseph Scott , Mark Murray , Paul Richards , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020509182927.A71548@allusion.net> References: <691.1020958309@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <691.1020958309@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:31:49PM +0200 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 --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:31:49PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >=20 > On Thu, 09 May 2002 08:24:57 MST, Joseph Scott wrote: >=20 > > 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 : > >=20 > > Perl is no longer comes with the base install of FreeBSD, please install > > it from your ports collection, in /usr/ports/lang/perl5. >=20 > We don't want the port to overwrite a script that exists in userland, > and we don't want installworld blowing away (or, even worse, following) > the port's symlink. >=20 > Symlink or redirector, but please not this. :-) Shouldn't ports *not* touch anything outside of ${PREFIX}? I, for one, can't stand when ports do that (except /etc/shells -- that's different). Seems that neither symlink nor redirector is neccesary; portable perl shebangs use #!/usr/bin/env perl to search $PATH for it, and if the local sysadmin wants they can make a symlink. --=20 Jordan DeLong fracture@allusion.net --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzbBlcACgkQDrrilS51AZ/i1gCfZj2RSKiQnJlNayNbShkhVQ3G GQsAnAqFOPdJvRhvbxm5cLUj8UhZMTK1 =mnq1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message